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"A writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
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Cocktail, Lisa Alward
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- Released
- 2024
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- Title
- Cocktail
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lisa Alward
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Released
- 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1771965622
- ISBN13
- 9781771965620
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- "A writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.