by Tessa Hadley · JONATHAN CAPE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780224078214
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In this collection of short stories by Tessa Hadley, everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, parents and children, and between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. The past is explosive and the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter. Ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
