Name: The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 65732134
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Author: Camilla Barnes
ISBN: 9781668062852

portada The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel (en Inglés)

The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Scribner

Autor

Camilla Barnes

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.32x13.34x1.63 cm

ISBN13

9781668062852

The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel (en Inglés)

Camilla Barnes (Autor) · Scribner · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel (en Inglés)"

A “droll, psychologically astute…unexpected…very funny” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air) and moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter.

Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of decades-old food.

Miranda’s father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an argument. Miranda’s mother likes to bring conversation back to “the War,” although she was born after it ended. Married for fifty years, they are uncommonly set in their ways. Miranda plays the role of translator when she visits, communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter. At the end of a visit, she reports “the usual desire to kill.”

This wry, propulsive story about an eccentric yet endearing family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them, is a glorious debut novel from a seasoned playwright with immense empathy and a flair for dialogue.