| "An ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph." John Banville |
From the author of Damage, a new novel of piercing emotional intensity and intelligence - about loss and love and what it takes for the heart and mind to bear them both.
The dramatic death of a teenage boy in a small Irish town in the early 1960s sets the story in motion, and three brilliantly realized voices - the boy's mother, his older sister, a German ex-pat neighbor - summon this world into existence. As they struggle to make sense of the tragedy, their descriptions of its aftermath mix with meditations and conversations about other love tested, twisted, or lost - including love of country - in the past and during the forty years through which the novel moves.
In the mother, we see how the desperate attention of her husband and the delicate bravery of her daughter lure her away from grief. In the neighbor, we see a man who knows all too well that 'after a tragedy, many survivors are lost.' In the sister, we see someone intent on embracing the 'weapon of memory.' These voices speak whole lives, shaped in essential ways by the boy's death, and by the ways the past requires as much attention - and love - as the present.
The dramatic death of a teenage boy in a small Irish town in the early 1960s sets the story in motion, and three brilliantly realized voices - the boy's mother, his older sister, a German ex-pat neighbor - summon this world into existence. As they struggle to make sense of the tragedy, their descriptions of its aftermath mix with meditations and conversations about other love tested, twisted, or lost - including love of country - in the past and during the forty years through which the novel moves.
In the mother, we see how the desperate attention of her husband and the delicate bravery of her daughter lure her away from grief. In the neighbor, we see a man who knows all too well that 'after a tragedy, many survivors are lost.' In the sister, we see someone intent on embracing the 'weapon of memory.' These voices speak whole lives, shaped in essential ways by the boy's death, and by the ways the past requires as much attention - and love - as the present.
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Hardback Editions
August 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Truth About Love Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 0-307-27261-3 / 978-0-307-27261-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Truth About Love Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 1-84408-560-0 / 9781844085606 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
February 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Truth About Love, The Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 0-7481-1120-4 / 978-0-7481-1120-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Hachette Digital Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Truth About Love Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 1-55468-545-1 / 9781554685455 (USA edition) Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Fiction Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
August 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Truth About Love (Vintage) Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 0-307-47426-7 / 978-0-307-47426-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Paperback
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August 2009 : Paperback
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February 2009 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
January 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: The Truth About Love Author(s): Josephine Hart ISBN: 1-4074-4138-8 / 978-1-4074-4138-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
November 2009 : Unknown
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August 2009 : Kindle edition
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February 2009 : Kindle edition
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