The internationally acclaimed author of Original Bliss chronicles the sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious events in a love affair between a young Scottish woman and a man who claims to be the ghost of Cyrano de Bergerac. 17,500 first printing. Tour.
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A. L. Kennedy is thirty-four years old and lives in Glasgow.
American debut last year to glowing reviews with her acclaimed short novel <b>Original Bliss</b> ("A world-class fiction writer" --Thomas Lynch, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>; "Like no other book . . . Erotic and funny . . . A high-wire act" --Daphne Merkin, <i>The New Yorker</i>). Now, in her first full-length novel to appear in this country, the prize-winning Scottish novelist A. L. Kennedy returns to the themes of isolation, emotional destitution and love with an ambitious, darkly funny book -- part love story, part ghost story -- that confirms her place as one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of her generation. <br><br>Jennifer Wilson is by vocation a disembodied voice, a radio announcer hiding from her life in a job that perfectly suits her constitution by allowing her to remain audible but invisible, protected by an invincible wall of anonymity. Then one day a new boarder appears at the house she shares in Glasgow, a
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