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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Tender charts the marshy territory of friendship, obsession and love, and offers no easy path. . . richly nuanced and utterly absorbing" Guardian"Are you asleep?" James said, nudging her with his leg."No," Catherine said, the word all in a drowse."Don't go to sleep," he said, and she heard him turn a page.Catherine and James are as close as two friends could ever be. They meet in Dublin in the late 1990s, she a college student, he a fledgling artist - both recent arrivals from rural communities, coming of age in a city which is teeming - or so they are told - with new freedoms, new possibilities.Catherine has never met anyone quite like James. Talented, quick-witted, adventurous and charismatic, he helps Catherine to open her eyes, to take on life with more gusto than she has ever before known how to do; she begins to enjoy her new home, to find her voice as a writer and to meet with the people who will shape her new world.But while Catherine's horizons are expanding, James's own life is becoming a prison; as changed as the new Ireland may be, it is still not a place in which he feels able to truly be himself. Catherine, grateful to James and worried for him, desperately wants to help - but as time moves on, and as life begins to take the friends in different directions, she discovers that there is a perilously fine line between helping someone and hurting them further. And when crisis hits, Catherine must face difficult truths not just about her closest bond - but about herself.From the author of the multi-award-winning debut Solace comes another dazzling exploration of the complexities of human relationships, a novel about friendship and youth, about selfhood and sexuality, about the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we are taught to tell. Brave, moving and powerfully told, Tender confirms Belinda McKeon's status as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in Irish fiction.PRAISE FOR BELINDA MCKEON"McKeon. . .captures what it is like to be young in Dublin with grace, subtlety and sympathy. She makes her characters both alluring and complex, and indeed dangerous, too" Colm Toibin"McKeon is a superb and sophisticated writer, who captures the barely articulable feelings between young people on the brink of adulthood" The Times The astonishing, lyrical and ambitious second novel by the winner of the Irish Book of the Year Award. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780330529907
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The astonishing, lyrical and ambitious second novel by the winner of the Irish Book of the Year Award. Seller Inventory # B9780330529907
Book Description Condition: New. . . 2016. Main Market Ed. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780330529907