Live a little a novel
At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his...
| Main Author: | Jacobson, Howard (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Hogarth,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Summary: |
At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he's whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing - especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him ever since. There's very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what's left. |
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| Item Description: |
"Originally published in hardcover by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House UK, London, in 2019"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
290 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781984824219 198482421X |
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