Showing results for "The Animals" in Psychological

A young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family, menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night, a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort and cruelty.

Bloomsbury presents Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong, read by Aoife McMahon. *A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024* ‘Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection’ PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT ‘Lush, lyrical...

In one of America's Happiest Cities, Elen is trapped under the shadow of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. Elen is alone, and unmoored. Her husband has left her. Her belongings are in the boot of her car. Her days are filled mostly with silence and drinking. When she meets four English teenagers in a decaying bar, she is enamoured. The teenagers are wealthy squatters, drifting between ski resorts and breaking into empty AirBnBs. When they bring Elen into their fold, she initially remains on the outskirts, invisibly separated by their privilege.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.

In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas A Real Animal follows Lucy through...

"An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." —Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly...

An anxious young woman rediscovers her humanity through a strange yet life-changing bond with a stray dog in this frenetic, bold, and startlingly tender novel from one of Spain's most gifted young writers. On the night she first encounters The Bitch, The Human is high. In her altered state, she...

Il romanzo vincitore del Premio Calvino all'unanimità. Il difficile percorso di emancipazione, lavorativa ed esistenziale, di una giovane donna alla ricerca di sé stessa. Fuggita da un malinconico paese e dal controllo asfittico della madre, Rosita cerca di costruirsi una propria indipendenza a Padova. Le cose non vanno come spera e si ritrova così schiacciata tra un lavoro poco gratificante e una relazione con un uomo sposato.

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings

Quando uno nasce, non sa chi è. Se non c'è nessuno che glielo dice, la vita diventa una bella complicazione. Lei, per esempio, non sapeva chi era, perché quando era nata, la notte di Natale, rotolando giù dal camion di Jack il camionista, si era ritrovata completamente sola e aveva scambiato per sua madre una pantofola di pelo. Una calda pantofola accogliente, dentro la quale si era accoccolata sognando di non essere ancora nata.