Categorie: faber books
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571383795-grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers/ Review: Grief personified When a husband and his two sons loose their wife/mother, grief becomes a huge part of their life. Even though the boys seem to be able to cope with it a bit better than the father, there’s always the looming pain of not having their mother around. While they try to…
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The Death of Francis Bacon
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571370702-the-death-of-francis-bacon/ Review: A Painted Veil The final days of the painter Francis Bacon ((1909-1992) are portrayed in this novella by Max Porter, in seven fictitious paintings. Through these seven paintings we see through the eyes of the painter how he lies on his deathbed, with only a nurse by his side. ‘Take a seat why…
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So late in the Day
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571382019-so-late-in-the-day/ Review: Cathal has another uneventful Friday, July 29th, and he’s about to step into a bus, towards the long weekend. While facing the weekend and during the trip on the bus and the walk to his house, he thinks of a woman Sabine, the woman he could have had a life with if he…
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