The keepsake
by Kirsty Gunn
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Through a shifting and interwoven narrative, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of her lost love, the girl's father. Raised on these deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is drawn into and begins to relive the real story of pain, abandonment, and the tyranny of desire.
Her shocking affair with an older man seems to repeat the pattern set by her mother. The tangled yarn of her mother's past begins to be unraveled by the younger woman - until finally she can come to tell a story that is her own.
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The Keepsake
March 11, 1998, Grove Press
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in English
- 1st Grove Press Pbk. Ed edition
0802135595 9780802135599
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The keepsake
1997, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
- 1st Amer. ed.
0871136759 9780871136756
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