My Revolutions

by HariKunzru (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $5.75

  It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts - a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Miranda, who once spoke about alternative lifestyles with the emphasis on alternative, rather than lifestyles, is reinventing herself as a thrusting nineties businesswoman. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then? And which side is he on now? Gripping, moving, provocative and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the post-'68 generation and the darker currents which ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.60

  `I have to be clear. It's already over; all this - the house, my family, this ridiculous party - no longer exists... The most terrible thing will be the look on Miranda's face, the gradual opening of the abyss. Everything she knows or believes about me, her lover, her partner for fifteen years, the man who has been a stepfather to her daughter, is untrue. Or if not untrue - for I've tried not to tell unnecessary lies - then partial, incomplete.Listen to me. Partial, incomplete. I'm even lying to myself. It could hardly be worse: she doesn't even know my real name...'