Afterwards: A Novel - Hardcover

Seiffert, Rachel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375422609 ISBN 13: 9780375422607

Publisher: Pantheon, 2007

Synopsis

When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship, but each brings with them an emotional burden which may spell disaster for them as a couple and as individuals.

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Review:

`Afterwards sees Seiffert wrap her masterful, delightfully controlled prose around conflicts more recent and morally ambiguous ... shunning politics and hyperbole, rejecting jargon in favour of effortful narration ... Seiffert patiently builds lives the reader can believe in and care about .... This highly engaging novel continues to reveal itself long after it is read. It is a book, like its protagonists, that gives up its secrets slowly.' -- The Sunday Telegraph

`Afterwards, Seiffert's superb new novel, is her most integrated and accomplished work yet ... Seiffert's skill is to conjure the ordinariness of those who do wrong, the way in which innocent actions - joining the army, meeting a man in a pub - escalate into crises. She evokes the realness of how memory works: the triggers, the bullet points of a narrative, the sense rather than the whole story. This is one of those books that reminds you how perverse it is that we, as readers, demand that something we know to be fiction seem both real and plausible.'
-- FT Magazine

`As the tension builds, the pace of Afterwards punches on like a pump-action steady stream of bullets ... it's bleakly compelling ...' -- The Daily Telegraph

`produces moments of thrilling intensity.'
-- Telegraph

Book Description:

The new novel, another remarkable story of the complexities of guilt and moral responsibility, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and Field Study. (2004-11-09)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375422609
• ISBN 13: 9780375422607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336