A Scarcity of Love |
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| Author:
| Kavan, Anna |
| Series title: | Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7206-1327-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | Peter Owen Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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Rejection, betrayal, and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel. Discarding such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts, this narrative tells the story of a young girl, rejected by her narcissistic and vengeful mother, whose life thereafter is a continuing series of betrayals that can lead only to the dead end of madness and death. Demonstrating a nearly perfect control over language, this tale describes, in...
More DescriptionRejection, betrayal, and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel. Discarding such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts, this narrative tells the story of a young girl, rejected by her narcissistic and vengeful mother, whose life thereafter is a continuing series of betrayals that can lead only to the dead end of madness and death. Demonstrating a nearly perfect control over language, this tale describes, in the simplest and most ordinary of terms, the bizarre and hallucinatory landscape of derangement.