Loverboy Pa - Couverture souple

Redel, Victoria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 015600724X ISBN 13 : 9780156007245

Editeur : Harvest, 2002

Synopsis

In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion," Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels she can be adequately passionate about. She conceives her son Paul through a loveless one-night stand, surrounds him with a wonderful, magical world for two--a world filled with books, music, endless games, and bottomless devotion--and calls him pet names like Birdie, Cookie, Puppy, and Loverboy. She wonders, "Has ever a mother loved a child more?" But as life outside their lace curtains begins to beckon the school-age Paul, his mother's efforts to keep him content in their small world become increasingly frantic and ultimately extreme by all definitions.
In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, exposing the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all types of devotion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Victoria Redel is an award winning author of three books of poetry and five books of fiction. She has taught in the Graduate Writing Programs of Columbia University and Vermont College. She has received numerous fellowships and her works have been widely anthologized and translated.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvest
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 015600724X
• ISBN 13: 9780156007245
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 228
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