Paradise - Hardcover

Kennedy, A. L.

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578 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400043646 ISBN 13: 9781400043644

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

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Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her humdrum job selling cardboard boxes, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with Robert, a man addicted to drink, as she pursues her quest for the ultimate altered state in which she can find happiness. 12,500 first printing.

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Review:

"A brave and uncompromising book that lingers in the mind, Paradise is A.L. Kennedy on top form" (Independent)

"This is a narrative that will not let the reader go - One of the most linguistically inventive and captivating British writers of the age" (Observer)

"The book sings its encapsulated pain with the effervescent energy of laughter" (The Times)

"Beautifully written...Her sharpest vision yet" (Guardian)

"One of Britain's most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents, a writer who repeatedly tests our expectations... Compelling, even consuming" (Daily Telegraph)

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The breakthrough novel by Best-of-Young-British novelist

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