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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

By Claire-Louise Bennett

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

By Claire-Louise Bennett

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"Gorgeous and a little unnerving. . .Reading it is a strange and wonderfully invigorating experience."-The New York Times

A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers

The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she's left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept.

An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she's loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage -a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss--make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2025-10-21
Publication Date:
2025-10-21
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798217046645
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
310 g
Height:
142 cm
Width:
214 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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