After You'd Gone
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- Synopsis
- [From the dust jacket:] A young woman named Alice Raikes boards a train to Scotland to visit her family. But when she arrives, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London that very minute. Only a few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that might or might not have been a suicide attempt. With Alice's life hanging in the balance, her family gathers at her bedside. As they wait, argue, and remember, long buried tensions rise to the surface. The more they talk, the more it seems, they conceal from each other. Alice, meanwhile, sliding between different levels of consciousness, recalls her past and the end of a tragic love affair. Skipping around in time, knitting together the different points of view with astonishing dexterity and beautiful prose, Maggie O'farrell has created a story of love and family relationships that is reminiscent of the very best of Edna O'Brien and Mary Gordon. With one of the most heart-stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth and impressive maturity.
- Copyright:
- 2000
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 372 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780670894482
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 08/25/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Maggie O'Farrell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Amber W
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.