01882cam a2200313 i 4500 1041372637 TxAuBib 20231215120000.0 230731s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023023863 9780593540923 HRD 28.00 0593540921 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Kennedy, Louise, (Ph. D.), author. The end of the world is a cul de sac [BOOK] / Louise Kennedy. First United States edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are "dazzling, heartbreaking... keen to share the lessons of a lifetime" (Guardian)"-- Provided by publisher. 20231215. Women Fiction. Grief Fiction. Hope Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Short stories.