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Item Details
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DESCENT
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| By: |
Sabrina Broadbent, Sarah Broadbent |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0701176857 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780701176853 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
4 March, 2004 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Against a backdrop of the seismic 90s, and framed by two air disasters (Lockerbie late 1988 and the twin towers 2001), this is the story of Genevieve, psychiatric nurse, wife, mother, daughter, who's trying to keep a whole lot of stuff airborne while things fall apart, inside and out. |
| Synopsis: |
This wonderfully acute and unsettling novel charts the trajectory of a woman's life and a couple's relationship during the last decade of the 20th century. Against a backdrop of the seismic nineties, and framed by two air disasters (Lockerbie late 1988 and the twin towers 9/11 2001), it's the story of Genevieve, psychiatric nurse, wife, mother, daughter, who's trying to keep a whole lot of stuff airborne while things fall apart, inside and out. Her husband is a filmmaker, usually absent, at first on small-budget art films (The Snow Queen) in out of the way places. But his career takes off, and suddenly he's making big budget star-vehicle movies (still The Snow Queen) in exotic locations. While her life narrows (babies, breastfeeding, builders), his expands: this is her narrative, addressed to him, trying to make sense of their lives and the forces - external and internal, family history and genetics, ambition and domesticity - which pull them apart. Her work, which drives her nuts but keeps her sane, her anarchic friend and colleague Sid, and the sad, crazed women in her charge provide a hilarious, heartbreaking backdrop to a world going off the rails.Unputdownable, funny and sad, Descent marks the arrival of a talented new novelist. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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