THESE SIX STORIES AND NOVELLA INTRODUCE THE READER TO AN IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE WORLD - A WORLD OF UNREMARKABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. SHINING MOMENTS OF INSIGHT POINT US T THE COMEDY AT THE HEART OF SORROW AND INCREAS...
Both pastoral and medical elements play with themes of great emotional intensity in these innovative poems about infatuation, pottery-making, resentment, memory loss, illness, jealousy, and love.
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Intimate and unforgettable, these eight stories play with themes of great emotional intensity: infatuation, tenderness, resentment, hope. The perceptive gallantry of a man in his early twenties leads an older woman to fall more than a little in love ...
When she begins to have trouble sleeping, Claire Vornoff drives out into the country to become a client of Declan Farrell, and an education (of sorts) begins. An alternative practitioner and an iconoclast in the medical establishment, Farrell is magn...