The gravity of love : ode to my family
Stridsberg, Sara, 1972-2016
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A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents. "I'll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic. Will he, really? This question plagues Jim's daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.
Main title:
The gravity of love : ode to my family / Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
Author:
Stridsberg, Sara, 1972-, authorBragan-Turner, Deborah, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Editions Limited, 2016.©2016
Collation:
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
First published in the Swedish language as Beckomberga: ode till min familj by Albert Bonniers, Stockholm, in 2014.Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9780857054760 (paperback)0857054767 (paperback)
Dewey class:
839.738
Language:
English
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BRN:
290289
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | STRI | Available |