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The Truth About Love

The Truth About Love

by JosephineHart (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $3.44

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    Hardcover 2009

    $3.29
Synopsis

It's dangerous . . . and that's the truth about love . . .

A young man shields his terrible wounds from his mother; a husband believes he can love his grief-stricken wife back to life; a young girl puts her own life on hold until her family can find their way back from blinding pain; a man surrenders to the helplessness of obsessive love.

Set in Ireland, this brilliant, intense story is about a family named O'Hara who chose to remain in the place of their loss, and the stranger from Germany who has run from his. It's about love - for another, for a country, for family - and survival, and it's remarkable.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 06 May 2010
ISBN 10: 1844085627
ISBN 13: 9781844085620
Book Overview: * Now in paperback, the exciting new novel from the bestselling author of DAMAGE, which received stunning reviews: 'An exhilarating adventure in language; the words throw up sparks of strange beauty ... A brave novel GUARDIAN

Media Reviews
** 'THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE is an ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph * John Banville *
** 'Opening with a long and impressively sustained overture of fractured, Beckettian prose, The Truth About Love is Josephine Hart's most ambitious novel to date. Her territory is not new. This is an Irish family story, in which the intimate and the polit * Joseph O'Connor GUARDIAN *
** 'This is not a tale about romantic, idealised love, the kind that comes with soaring strings and sweeping gestures, but about a more dangerous kind of love: real, raw love, the sort of passion that can neither be controlled nor packaged. The anger and the selfishness of love-induced grief is brilliantly portrayed through the book, in particular through poor, tragic Sissy, already wounded by the death of a daughter. It's a bleak tale, beautifully told, about the one burden we must all, as human beings, survive: love * Sarah Vine THE TIMES *
** 'The Truth is: love hurts. Particularly the kind of love which spills over into obsession. For as Josephine Hart chillingly shows in her latest novel, love can be a torture which is impossible to give up - whatever the price. Ambitious in scope, Hart's * Lucy Beresford THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Author Bio
Josephine Hart (1942-2011) was the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion and The Reconstructionist. She was a Director of Haymarket Publishing and founded Gallery Poets before going on to produce a number of West End plays. As well writing novels, she was a `poetry evangelist' and her Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library inspired two edited poetry books: Catching Life By the Throat and Words that Burn. She was married to Maurice Saatchi and had two sons.