The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd
Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighbourhood to another, but she's not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she asks first and foremost that her tenants respect one another's privacy. She believes in boundaries, solitude, that she has a right to her ghosts. Everything changes with the arrival of a new tenant, a dazzling woman of a certain age on the run from her husband's recent betrayal. The carefully constructed walls of Celia's world are soon tested and the very sanctity of her building is shattered-through violence and sex, in turns tender and dark. Celia and her tenants are forced to abandon their separate spaces for a far more intimate one, leading to a surprising conclusion, and the promise of genuine joy. Amy Grace Loyd investigates interior spaces, of the body and the New York warrens in which her characters live, offering a startling emotional honesty about the traffic between men and women. Ultimately, The Affairs of Others is a story about the irrepressibility of life and desire, no matter its sorrows or obstacles.
Loyd, Amy Grace: - AMY GRACE LOYD is an executive editor at Byliner Inc. and was the fiction and literary editor at Playboy magazine. She is the author of The Affairs of Others. A recipient of both MacDowell and Yaddo fellowships, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250041296 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250041295 |
| Title | The Affairs of Others |
| Author | Amy Grace Loyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2013-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Debut Fiction) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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