Field Study - Hardcover

Seiffert, Rachel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434011851 ISBN 13: 9780434011858

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

With a range of settings as diverse as the Scottish seaside and post-Communist eastern Germany, Seiffert uses the locations of these stories to bring her characters into relief. Powerfully evoking our human need for connection, Field Study takes us on journeys that demonstrate both the fragility and adaptability of our emotions. From a family that fears upsetting their little boy by moving house, to a wife who refuses to accept her husband's condemnation of his own father; from a student conducting his scientific graduate studies of eastern European pollution to a wartime mother's escape as she carries her children across a swollen river, Seiffert isolates and captures not only the underlying and compelling sorrow of love, but also the joy and desire for that love that keeps us alive.

About this title

Review:

‘Seiffert is economical with detail ... in being so, imbues her taut, sculpted stories with strangeness and truth’ -- Metro

‘This is an established writer meditating on guilt, love, loneliness and death’ -- Daily Mail

‘tightly focused, self-contained studies’ -- Times Literary Supplement

‘...distinctively European, sketching stark, memorable portraits of the love – intense of fleeting - that shapes our lives.' -- YOU magazine, Mail on Sunday

From the Publisher:

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, a remarkable collection of stories exploring themes of guilt, love and sacrifice with a haunting emotional precision.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0434011851
• ISBN 13: 9780434011858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272