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The Fierce Weigh Down the Water

ByLee Redfern

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The story follows Elmer Bergan at four stages of her life – when she is eight, 18, 28 and 38 – all told in her own voice and in the first person. As she lives through the events of her first thirty years, events, memories, thoughts come in and out of her consciousness at different stages like a river that flows from one experience to the next and back again. Rather than this being a story about the death of a child, it is about obsession, the need for answers when questions are all you have left. It is a character study of childhood, both in Elmer's life and in her grandparents whose relationship means they act with one another like children; her mother Laura who can't cope with motherhood; her father who's extra-curricular relationship is at odds with the family he has help to create and destroy. The novel is bleak at times but touches on the surreal nature of childhood, as well as being funny, dark and political.

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Publication Date
Jul 14, 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780244399405
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Lee Redfern

Specifications

Pages
562
Binding
Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)

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