Attachment: A Novel - Softcover

Fonseca, Isabel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554683505 ISBN 13: 9781554683505

Publisher: Harpercollins Canada, 2009

Synopsis

After more than twenty years together, Jean and Mark revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. Life seems idyllic. Until, that is, Jean opens a salacious love-letter addressed to Mark. Looking for answers she goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own...

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Review

"Just thinking of this novel, I smile... so gratifyingly readable. When it comes to deciphering our new world and its emotional intricacies, Fonseca is spot-on" (Fay Weldon)

"A searing tale of middle-aged anxiety, so accomplished and pertinent, witty and wise" (Independent on Sunday)

"Fonseca possesses a wonderful eye and vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and a nasty wit about characters we're not supposed to like... All is perfectly suited to her complex subject, one worth taking seriously: the difficulty of loving someone you already love, and its corollary, the stony impenetrability of others" (Richard Ford)

"An impressive debut...it is insistent, weighty, carefully and densely composed....this is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty" (Time Out)

"She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place" (Sunday Times)

Book Description

Intriguing, sexy, smart and provocative, a bold and brilliant fictional debut which will make waves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Canada
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1554683505
• ISBN 13: 9781554683505
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English