Results for: books tagged ‘Loss’
Peter Gill Plays 1: Peter Gill
This first collection of Peter Gill's plays spans his work from 1965 to 1987. The plays are studies of love and time, loss and the fear of loss. The collection ... More
The Night Season: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent. Psalm 22Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up ... More
A Brief Stay with the Living: Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq tells the story of a single day in the life of a mother and her three grown-up daughters. Now scattered between the South of France and Buenos Aires, ... More
The Haw Lantern: Seamus Heaney
Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning ... More
Hardboiled/Hard Luck: Banana Yoshimoto
Hardboiled opens as the narrator treks high above her secluded mountain hotel on the anniversary of her lover's death. Hard Luck opens with another female narrator, this time at the ... More
I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While: Taichi Yamada
Following his acclaimed novels Strangers and In Search of a Distant Voice, I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While is another haunting, urban ghost story from Taichi Yamada.After accident, ... More
The Ministry of Special Cases: Nathan Englander
Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people ... More
Chekhov's Ivanov: Tom Stoppard
Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy and optimism, in love with his wife and working hard. Now, for no reason he can understand, Ivanov ... More
In the Crowd: Laurent Mauvignier
May 1985, Jeff and Tonino, two Parisian football fans with serious drinking habits, are on their way to the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, at the Heysel Stadium ... More
How to Paint a Dead Man: Sarah Hall
From Italy in the 1960s to Cumbria thirty years later, Sarah Hall's Booker-longlisted fourth novel, told through four narrators, is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives. More
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