| Edition |
First United States edition. |
| Description |
290 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in hardcover by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House UK, London, in 2019"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walk without the aid of a frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing—especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him ever since. There’s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way and find new meaning in what’s left. Could this be their chance to live a little? |
| Subject |
Older people -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Memory disorders in old age -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781984824219 (hbk.) |
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198482421X (hbk.) |
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