Why the Tree Loves the Axe Paperback / softback
by Jim Lewis
Paperback / softback
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The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star. Caroline, 27, walks out of a marriage and into an old people’s home where she meets cantankerous, lusty octogenarian Billy, who entrusts a secret to her.
She goes from his deathbed to a wedding, where she is seduced by a beautiful man who tells her stories of her ex’s antics back home.
Bright, buoyant Bonnie, meanwhile, installs herself as Caroline’s new best friend and accompanies her to a picnic that turns into a riot.
When it is over, the world’s altered: for Caroline is no longer herself – she must flee being Caroline.
We follow her long flight through trauma, fakery and captivity to redemption. Jim Lewis’s tale of how to measure love and its loss is a swooningly observant and atmospheric tale of rare resonance.
Lewis writes about sex, ageing, identity and bereavement with such newness and rightness that his reader is struck dumb.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:01/07/2008
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- ISBN:9780007292158
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:01/07/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780007292158