Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvClaire-Louise Bennett

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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage – a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss – make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-09
Mått180 x 10 x 130 mm
Vikt220 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagFitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN9781804271933

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Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and currently lives in Ireland. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and her debut book, Pond, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Her second book, Checkout 19, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2021 and was part of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection. Claire-Louise’s fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, Stinging Fly, frieze, Harper’s Magazine and the New Yorker. Big Kiss, Bye-Bye is her third work of fiction.

‘Bennett’s prose shimmers with a neo-baroque charisma. Her style is various, flexible and distinctive.... It has been heralded (by Anne Enright, among others) as an index of a ‘new modernism’.... Big Kiss, Bye-Bye activates and resists our expectations about testimony, confessionalism, narrative access; our presumption that we know just how the accent is falling in a life or a work, that the obsessions and preoccupations shown us are the only or even the main ones.... [It] is interested in both erotic annihilation and persistence. (It is also at times very funny.) Bennett sustains a subtle dialectic throughout – between the ecstatic “undoing” promised by eros and the ongoing possibilities of provisional reassemblage through writing and conversation.... [A] philosophical rehabilitation of romance.’— Maureen McLane, London Review of Books