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Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each story a dramatisation of the instant in a life that exposes it all: love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope.These men and women are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. They conceal tenderness and disappointment, vulnerability and longing, griefs and wonders - and, with each of them, Kennedy…
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8 editions · 2 languages- Ebook · English · 2010Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307593139
- Ebook · English · 2009Random House Group Limited · 9781409079095
- Other · English · 2011What Becomes StoriesVintage Books USA · 9780307476241
- Other · English · 2011House of Anansi Press · 9780887843051
- Other · English · 2010What Becomes StoriesVintage Books USA · 9780099494065
- Other · English · 2010Alfred A. Knopf · 208 pages · 9780307273543
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