Paradise

Author: A.L. Kennedy

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  • : $8.00 NZD
  • : 9780099433491
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
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  • : 0.246
  • : August 2005
  • : 201mm X 133mm X 22mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
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  • : 352
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Description

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinking is frankly out of hand. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise. Paradise is a compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty.