A Family Affair
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family AffairA Family Affair, love is the first casualty and deceit ' towards others, towards oneself ' the norm.Kitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and so cheats in turn, in the office and with a divorced police officer who has hired her. Her partner, Mathieu, has no idea how to be, and the police officer Guillaume no idea what he wants. So begins a story of messy relationships wrested against the odds from the detritus of failed marriages, the demands of professional lives, and the pull of the internet and its false messages of perfection. With an assiduous eye that is both clinical and sympathetic, Bismuth's elegant and highly readable novel captures the alienating nature of contemporary life and sheds light on this, our strange new world full of unrequited yearning in a sea of seeming plenty.
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- ISBN: 9781487007034
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320 pages - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : House of Anansi Press Inc, 2020.
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General Note: | Electronic book. GMD: electronic resource. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] House of Anansi Press Inc 2020 Available via World Wide Web. |
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