It's beginning to hurt
By: James Lasdun
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780224080903
Subjects: Human behavior; Fiction
Work titles: Works
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: An anxious man; title: The natural order; title: The incalculable life gesture; title: The half-sister; title: The old man; title: Annals of the honorary secretary; title: Cleanness; title: The woman in the window; title: A bourgeois story; title: Oh, death; title: Totty; title: Cranley Meadows; title: Peter Kahn's third wife; title: Lime pickle; title: It's beginning to hurt; title: Caterpillars.