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Elizabeth McCracken The Hero of this Book

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Vintage Publishing

UK

2023

Paperback

192

Standard

318206

978-1-5299-1965-3

1-5299-1965-7

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing. Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

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