Title: All the rage /
Authors: Kennedy, A. L.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Interpersonal relations Fiction
Abstract: Here, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation or emotional damage somehow emerge - haltingly, awkwardly - into the astonishment of intimacy. And here, too, are the ones who will not shake off the hurt and the loss, who will not come through. The title story takes place on a railway platform, with a couple waiting for a train that never comes, and opens out into the husband's shocking admission of years of deceit, and a devastating portrait of a failed marriage, a failed man.
Contents: Late in life -- Baby blue -- Because it's a Wednesday -- These small pieces -- The practice of mercy -- Knocked -- All the rage -- Takes you home -- The effects of good government on the city -- Run catch run -- A thing unheard-of -- This man.