Sunstroke and Other Stories - by Tessa Hadley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A Picador Paperback Original</b> <p/>Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. <p/>A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. <p/>In Tessa Hadley's <i>Sunstroke and Other Stories</i>, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Miraculous . . . Deft and resonant, [these stories] encapsulate moments of hope and humiliation in a kind of shorthand of different lives lived. Hadley never fails to surprise." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Tessa Hadley's gift as a writer is so considerable that her characters' revelations and predicaments linger in the mind long after her narrative has darted off in other directions." --<i>Alice Traux, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"A warm novel that follows the contours of four generations of a family and, in the end, shows us ourselves." --<i>Associated Press on Everything Will Be All Right</i> <p/>"Marvelously intricate . . . Hadley's intelligence puts her in the company of Carol Shields and Doris Lessing." --<i>The Boston Globe on Accidents in the Home</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tessa Hadley</b>'s first novel, <i>Accidents in the Home, </i> was longlisted for <i>The Guardian</i>'s First Book Award. Four of the stories in Sunstroke were published in <i>The New Yorker</i>. Hadley lives in Cardiff, Wales. Her novel <i>The Master Bedroom</i> was published by Henry Holt
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