Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Ayelet Waldman

Author: Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

Is Emilia the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William -a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, she pushes him -accidentally - into a pond in Central Park. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone?LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS is funny, candid and raw, a humorous and emotional novel about family in today's fractured society. Set among high-achieving Manhattanites, it announces the arrival of an exciting new American voice.

About Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman was a criminal defence lawyer before she became a full-time writer. She is married to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon and they live in California with their four children.Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is her first novel to be published in the UK.

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SKU BK-9780552772921
Barcode # 9780552772921
Brand Black Swan
Artist / Author Ayelet Waldman
Shipping Weight 0.2400kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 2.100m
Assembled Width 12.700m
Type Paperback

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