Sunstroke and Other Stories

Sunstroke and Other StoriesA Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke

A Picador Paperback Original

Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships.

A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.

In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/24/2007
ISBN: 9780312425999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
Award: Story Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/30/2007 pg. 134
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2007 pg. 572
Library Journal 07/01/2007 pg. 87
New York Times 08/05/2007 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 08/12/2007 pg. 22
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2007 pg. 12