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In the Scotiabank Giller Prize winning author Johanna Skibsrud s new book, nine loosely connected and hypnotic stories introduce an unforgettable cast of characters. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that the man is someone other than who she thinks. A divorced father, fearing estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter, allows her to take the wheel of his car, realizing too late that he s made a grave mistake. A Canadian girl and her French host stumble on the one story that transcends their language barrier. Youth confronted with the mutterings of old age, restlessness bounded by the muddy confines of a backyard garden, callow hope coming up against the exigencies of everyday life these are life-defining moments that weave throughout the everyday lives of the remarkable characters in this book. Time and again they find themselves confronted with what they didn t know they didn t know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire. In This Will Be Difficult to Explain Skibsrud has created a series of masterful, perceptive tales."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: This Will be Difficult to Explain
• Subtitle: and Other Stories
• Author: Johanna Skibsrud
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 169
• EAN: 9780393073751
• ISBN: 0393073750
• ID: 04603851
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 147 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. December 2012

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