Verfasser:
Kennedy, A. L.
Verfasser Angabe:
A. L. Kennedy
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Arrow Books
Erscheinungsort:
London
Jahr:
2005
Umfang:
310 S.
ISBN:
978-0-09-973071-2
Inhalt:
Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace.
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