The Table (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Grande Dame Literary, LLC, 2025
- Softcover
- New
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United KingdomCitiRetail
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Paperback. Every table has a story-etched in scars, stained with secrets, and polished by the relentless passing of time. In THE TABLE, a collection of deeply connected stories, the ordinary becomes uncanny, and the familiar grows unsettlingly intimate. A Berlin apartment flickers with the spectral glow of broken neon, summoning memories of wartime attics and names engraved in brass outside doors. Brunch in New York devolves into confessional theatre, mimosas traded for milk at the announcement of new life. Letters from a prison cell resurrect old loves and unspoken betrayals, while childhood chess games become generational hauntings, each move on the board a quiet battle with memory and regret.These stories do not merely observe-they witness. They lean in close to overhear old friends dissecting clam chowder recipes while sidestepping heartbreak, lovers calculating the perfect moment to begin-or end-a family. A father rages against a mustard shortage as if it were a betrayal by history itself. A sleepless old man climbs the stairs to the attic, after swearing he'd never enter again, in pursuit of darkness and silence that will finally let him rest. With unflinching emotional precision, Kate Becker reveals how grief, longing, love, and stubborn hope are all carved into the woodgrain of our daily lives-into every kitchen table, cafe booth, and cracked countertop that becomes a stage for our most human dramas.Come sit at these tables. Lean in. Listen for the whispers and confessions they hold. They remember everything-the laughter and the fury, the tenderness and the cruelty. They are witnesses and conspirators, historians and confessors. These tables harbor truths we fear to speak aloud, lessons we must learn and relearn. Cross the divide, if you dare. The stories are waiting, alive with the electricity of the unspoken, daring us to claim our place at the table This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Table (Paperback)
- Author
- Kate Becker
- Publisher
- Grande Dame Literary, LLC
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798349471780
Every table has a story-etched in scars, stained with secrets, and polished by the relentless passing of time. In THE TABLE, a collection of deeply connected stories, the ordinary becomes uncanny, and the familiar grows unsettlingly intimate. A Berlin apartment flickers with the spectral glow of broken neon, summoning memories of wartime attics and names engraved in brass outside doors. Brunch in New York devolves into confessional theatre, mimosas traded for milk at the announcement of new life. Letters from a prison cell resurrect old loves and unspoken betrayals, while childhood chess games become generational hauntings, each move on the board a quiet battle with memory and regret.
These stories do not merely observe-they witness. They lean in close to overhear old friends dissecting clam chowder recipes while sidestepping heartbreak, lovers calculating the perfect moment to begin-or end-a family. A father rages against a mustard shortage as if it were a betrayal by history itself. A sleepless old man climbs the stairs to the attic, after swearing he'd never enter again, in pursuit of darkness and silence that will finally let him rest. With unflinching emotional precision, Kate Becker reveals how grief, longing, love, and stubborn hope are all carved into the woodgrain of our daily lives-into every kitchen table, café booth, and cracked countertop that becomes a stage for our most human dramas.
Come sit at these tables. Lean in. Listen for the whispers and confessions they hold. They remember everything-the laughter and the fury, the tenderness and the cruelty. They are witnesses and conspirators, historians and confessors. These tables harbor truths we fear to speak aloud, lessons we must learn and relearn. Cross the divide, if you dare. The stories are waiting, alive with the electricity of the unspoken, daring us to claim our place at the table
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