Twenty-Twenty Vision

di Mary Morrissy (Autore)

The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2025

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his teenage pen pal that has sustained him for 40 years.  Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked short stories about hindsight and late middle-age regret subtly framed within the first year of the pandemic. It’s also a portrait, an emotional map of the 1950s generation moving into the third age with a mixture of apprehension and regret. The characters make chastening discoveries – one finds after a lifetime that she’s a bullying victim, another draws up a curriculum vitae of her emotional life when there are no jobs left to apply for.  The work focuses on a handful of characters – Christine, Olivia, Possible, the overarching narrative is connected by character and situation, and united in theme, to form a tapestry of late middle-age reckoning. Bernard, Freddie, Triona and Eva – as they revisit their past and grapple with late-life perspectives. 

• Autore: Mary Morrissy
• Editore: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781843519164

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