Nancy Huston

Sweet Agony

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On a snowy New England evening in a small college town, Sean Farrell-a hard-drinking, libidinous poet and professor-hosts a Thanksgiving dinner. The eleven guests include two fellow professors (one a novelist, the other also a poet), two of Sean's former lovers, his lawyer, his housepainter, and his baker. What none of them knows is that Sean is dying. This dinner could be his grand finale.As food and drink flow, secrets are exposed, tragedies bared, and truths uncovered. Never could we have dreamed how rough adult life would be,” one character thinks. Yet there is wit and laughter too, in a novel about mortality that is also a celebration of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-375-71366-8
EAN: 9780375713668
Produktnummer: 1188059
Verlag: Vintage
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H21.1 cm x B21.4 cm x D1.6 cm 249 g
Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor

A native of Calgary and of New Hampshire, Nancy Huston now lives in Paris; she writes in both French and English. The author of nine novels and numerous works of nonfiction, she has won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéen, the Prix du Livre-Inter, the Prix Elle, and the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French.