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035 $a(OCoLC)49280958
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100 1 $aO'Farrell, Maggie,$d1972-
245 10 $aAfter you'd gone /$cMaggie O'Farrell.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$c2000.
300 $a372 p. ;$c20 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Great Britain : Review, 2000.
520 $aLike a pointillist painting, this fine debut is, from one perspective, formless--short vignettes, told from multiple points of view and in multiple voices, that are somewhat puzzling on their own and apparently have no connection to each other. Ultimately, however, these elements merge into a coherent and moving portrait of a young woman's journey toward a life-threatening crisis. In London, one cold day in late fall, Alice Raikes impulsively boards a train home to Scotland. Shortly after joining her two sisters in the Edinburgh train station, she sees something "odd and unexpected and sickening" in the station's restroom that causes her immediately to flee back to London. Later that evening, while walking to the grocery store, Alice broods over what she has seen, then abruptly steps into oncoming traffic. As she lies comatose in her hospital bed, a swirl of voices and images gradually reveals her past--her parents, especially her mother, Ann; her beloved grandmother, Elspeth; her two sisters, so unlike her, both physically and temperamentally; and John Friedman, whom she loved and lost--and hints at her precarious future. The unnamed spectacle of the opening washroom scene resurfaces in Alice's semiconscious haze, and its eventual elucidation comes as less of a shock than a confirmation of all we have learned about her tumultuous existence. Sharply observed details of everyday life and language, original and telling figures of speech and deftly handled plot twists reach a moving climax, while subtly raising the question of whether the objects of Alice's affection--and the sources of her agony--were worth enduring.
650 0 $aComa$xPatients$vFiction.
650 0 $aSuicidal behavior$vFiction.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$vFiction.
651 0 $aScotland$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
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