Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
332
Language
Italian
Published
Jan 1, 2007
Publisher
Gaffi editore in Roma
ISBN-10
8887803056
ISBN-13
9788887803051
Description
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.