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Schopenhauer's Porcupines

By Lynn Bushell

Schopenhauer's Porcupines

By Lynn Bushell

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"Like Schopenhauer's porcupines, we rush together because we are chilly and rush apart because we are prickly." It is twenty years since Wanda's husband threw himself off the top floor landing of their house in Primrose Hill. Hers is a story of abandonment. In 1939, she lost her mother at the railway station as the family fought its way onto the last train out of Warsaw. She has spent her life determined never to let go of anything again. Her husband's presence has been resurrected in a shrine out on the landing, with his shoes left in the same spot where he took them off that night. The family reunions that mark the anniversary of his death have turned into a battlefield, on which those still imprisoned in her claustrophobic grip try vainly to escape. But this, the twentieth reunion, is destined to be different. Wanda is about to find out why her husband left her so dramatically, the shocking secret that her sister, Mitzi, has held onto all these years, and the unwitting role played in the tragedy by Wanda's elder son, the brilliant, wayward Schopenhauer scholar, Gregor Silver.
Author and painter Lynn Bushell lives in France on the west coast of the Normandy Peninsula, which provides the subject for most of her paintings. Schopenhauer's Porcupines is her third novel.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2013-10-29
Publication Date:
2013-10-29
Publisher:
Strategic Book Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1628574658
ISBN13:
9781628574654
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
462 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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