the other staying in the monastery and struggling
and discusses the technique of multiple narrators
a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality
Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive
Gaitskill applies her razor-sharp writing to her most personal subjects yet
The Faces Matthew Specktor the other staying in the'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' New Statesman From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is