Confessions With Keith (ebook)

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An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mothers grappling with mid-life crisisher husbands and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesnt notice that her house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Shecan barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off.Our heroines only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keiths hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewisein the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vitas journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vitas passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves.Praise for Pauline HoldstockHoldstock writes powerfully in Frankies voice, drawing readers into his internal life absorbing.Quill & QuirePauline Holdstock enchants with a spell of delectable storytelling the novels wonderment and delight in the possibilities of life is an effervescent tonic.Vancouver SunCaptivating An intriguing mystery The novel finds its way with charming intrigue and humour.Winnipeg Free PressHoldstocks writing moves seamlessly between her research and her polished storytelling of people, landscape and grief. These are familiar preoccupations, but she continues to make them compelling and rich.National PostPauline Holdstocks language is so powerful, her writing so wrought with emotion and beauty, that you become fully lost in her world.Winnipeg Review