The Past
A Literary Fiction, Abandoned, Contemporary book. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent. Tessa Hadley, The Past...
Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past -- their mother took them there when she left their father – but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions.Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don’t like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice’s ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Roland’s teenage daughter. Fran’s children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780224101691 / 0
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What use was her grown-up knowledge--acquired through such initiations, at such risk--in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe? Tessa Hadley, The Past // In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent. Tessa Hadley, The Past // she had felt weightless and carefree, as if she could go back to a bright, hard, selfish time when she had only herself to think about. Tessa Hadley, The Past //
4 or 4.5I really liked this one. I picked it up at my university library in a fit of end-of-semester emotions; I had just finished grading students' finals and dropped them back in the office. I was quite elated and skipped on over to the library for a treat. I came away with an armful of books, most of which I was alreadyplanning on... This was a good story and especially perfect for reading during the summer, since it takes place over three weeks in a summer cottage. Four siblings and their children go back to this cottage every now and then in order to reunite and forget everything about their everyday lives. This time is a little bit different, though, as they're... While "The Past" has no plot to speak of, even so I stayed up until 1 a.m. last night to finish it. I've rarely felt this invested in characters, or felt so tenderly toward fictional beings. Hadley moves freely from one character's interior thoughts and feelings to the next. We never learn the full story of any one character. And yet....
