Life Without Children ( SIGNED BY AUTHOR )
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2021
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Twice-Loved Books, East Palestine, OH, U.S.A.Twice-Loved Books
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** SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2021 ** AS NEW SOFTCOVER ** FLAWLESS UNREAD COPY ** CLEAN, STAIN-FREE, UNMARKED ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** SPINE UNCREASED AND UNBROKEN ** Published in London by Jonathan Cape, 2021, with 177 pages, 1st Edition (hardcover and soft cover 1st Editions published together). SIGNED by the author on the title page. NOTE: The photos you can access with this listing are of the actual book you will be sent. The book is essentially flawless, appears unread. The book is exceptionally clean and stain-free, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, missing, folded, or torn. The corners are sharp and are not bumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, bright and white, and all text is sharp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings in the book (aside from aurhor's signature). Buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling online since 1995. B2.
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- Title
- Life Without Children ( SIGNED BY AUTHOR )
- Author
- Doyle, Roddy
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1787333582
- ISBN 13
- 9781787333581
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN***
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories
Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.
In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.
Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
'A quietly devastating collection of short stories that brilliantly portrays the pervasive sense of hopelessness that immobilised us during the dog days of Covid' Sunday Times
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