The Beautiful Indifference
- ISBN-10
- 0571278507
- ISBN-13
- 9780571278503
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-15
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Author
- Sarah Hall
Description
The Beautiful Indifference is a collection of intensely erotic and disarming tales, which span centuries, contemporary life and the future, and evoke landscapes as diverse as London's metropolis and lake Vuotjrvi in the Finnish wilderness. A woman who chooses not save her drowning lover. A frustrated housewife who arranges an appointment with the mysterious 'Agency'. A girl enamoured with a notorious Cumbrian horse-breeding family who innocently unleashes their wrath. Each story rotates on an axis of survivalism - natural and medical, physical and sexual - so that wolves and humans alike are exposed and hunted across the pages, then hung like elegant trophies.
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