INFIDELITIES
Kirsty
Gunn
A new collection from the
prize-winning author of The Big Music and The Boy and the Sea.
This new collection of
stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales
of lust, deceit, resentment and regret – and of the secrets and lies that can
chip away at human relationships.
In a series of interwoven
dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilaration of the
open road or the anonymity of the forest; fathers absent in body or mind;
husbands who look the other way; complacency turned to spite and apathy
turned to betrayal. At the same time Gunn pursues the glorious rush of a snap
decision, the liberty of answering that siren call of a better life
elsewhere.
Written with Gunn's
trademark attention to nuances of behaviour, motive and even landscape, Infidelities
is a temptingly beautiful work that asks 'what if?' and dares to find
out.
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Kirsty Gunn published her first novel with
Faber in 1994 and since then has written five works of fiction, including
short stories and a collection of fragments and meditations. She is also
Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee, where
she established and directs the writing programme. In 2013 she was the winner
of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for The Big Music. She lives in London and Scotland with her husband
and two daughters.
PUBLISHED:
10 October 2014
IMPRINT:
Faber & Faber
NZRRP: $32.99
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