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Mothers: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Chris PowerPublish date:1/28/2020Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250234964ISBN-10:1250234964UPC:9781250234964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:7.40 x 4.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCKN2XZV1N

An "extraordinary" (The Sunday Times) debut of unnerving beauty, Chris Power's short story collection Mothers evokes the magic and despair of the essential human longing for purpose.

Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends--characters who search without knowing what they seek. Their paths lead them to thresholds, bridges, rivers, and sites of mysterious, irresistible connection to the past. A woman uses her mother's old travel guide, aged years beyond relevance, to navigate on a journey to nowhere; a stand-up comic with writer's block performs a fateful gig at a cocaine-fueled bachelor party; on holiday in Greece, a father must confront the limits to which he can keep his daughters safe. Braided throughout is the story of Eva, a daughter, wife, and mother, whose search for a self and place of belonging tracks a devastating path through generations.

Ranging from remote English moors to an ancient Swedish burial ground to a hedonistic Mexican wedding, the stories in Mothers lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love, and abandonment. Suffused with yearning, Power's transcendent prose expresses a profound ache for vanished pasts and uncertain futures.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250234964ISBN-10:1250234964UPC:9781250234964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:7.40 x 4.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCKN2XZV1N
Chris Power lives and works in London. His column, A Brief Survey of the Short Story, has appeared in The Guardian since 2007. He has written for the BBC, The New York Times, and the New Statesman. His fiction has been published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, and The White Review, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Mothers is his first book.
Publisher: Picador USA

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