The American lover
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Rose Tremain
Edition: First American edition. First edition.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780393246711
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Short stories; Women authors; English Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. A middle-aged woman cares for her injured mother at Christmas. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor, Daphne du Maurier"--
Table of contents: title: The American lover --; title: Captive --; title: The Jester of Astapovo --; title: Extra geography --; title: A view of Lake Superior in the fall --; title: Man in the water --; title: Juliette Greco's black dress --; title: The housekeeper --; title: Smithy --; title: BlackBerry winter --; title: Lucy and Gaston --; title: The closing door --; title: 21st-Century Juliet.