My Phantoms [Signed 1st Printing]

Riley, Gwendoline

ISBN 10: 1681376814 / ISBN 13: 9781681376813

Edité par The New York Review of Books, New York, NY, 2021

A propos de cet article

1st printing of the first American edition SIGNED by Riley on the title page with a blue ballpoint pen. A trade paper original with card covers. The novel was published by Granta in England in the same year. As new. Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted her daughter. Now, as together they approach the end, Bridget looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - and tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. With so little time left, can these two warring women find a bruised accord? Also available from this bookseller is a signed American first printing of First Love.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: My Phantoms [Signed 1st Printing]
• Éditeur: The New York Review of Books, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1681376814
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781681376813
• Reliure: Trade Paper
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • British Fiction, Autographed

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Synopsis

A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love.

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as "Hen") has always haunted Bridget.

Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship--the performances and small deceptions--she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.

From the prize-winning author of First Love, My Phantoms is a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond, which brings humor, subtlety, and new life to the difficult terrain of mothers and daughters.

À propos de l?auteur

Gwendoline Riley is an English writer. Born in London, she published her first novel, Cold Water, in 2002. Her novel First Love was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She has also been awarded a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.