Real

Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Merritt was born in Surrey in 1974. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and is currently Deputy Literary Editor and comedy critic of the Observer . Gaveston is her first novel. Klappentext Greg is a fading middle-aged actor whose family life has long since become stale; When they're thrown together to do a West End play! they plunge into a reckless affair that seems to offer an escape into fantasy . until Sally makes a shocking discovery that brings them face to face with real life again. Real by Stephanie Merritt: what happens when a love affair goes wrong? What happens to all those hopes and dreams? Zusammenfassung Greg is a fading middle-aged actor whose family life has long since become stale; Sally is a struggling young playwright. When they're thrown together to do a West End play, they plunge into a reckless affair that seems to offer an escape into fantasy . . . until Sally makes a shocking discovery that brings them face to face with real life again. A novel of sharp insight, written with warmth and compelling honesty, Real is a brilliant portrait of modern illusions about love.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Merritt, Merritt Stephanie
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2006
• EAN: 9780571222643
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22264-3
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Comedy; Men & Women; Sex, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary