It's Beginning to Hurt

The stories in this collection expose the hidden desires and fears of the characters, exposing their self-delusions, images of themselves and their habits. There are bankers, furniture dealers, a self-employed forester, a former-hippie divorcée, an astronomer coping with academic redundancy, an assistant in a jewellery store, a womanising Scottish photographer, and a surgeon who bullies his younger son. These characters have briefly sketched pasts and family ties, memories of exile in Tomsk or long-gone friendships. They appear in upstate New York and Manhattan, the Sussex countryside and suburban north London, and among the mountains of Albania and France.

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Editions

6

Pages

257

ISBN

9780224080903

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