01756cam a2200337 i 4500 1072691648 TxAuBib 20231212120000.0 230731s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023023863 9780593540923 hbk. 0593540921 hbk. TxAuBib rda Kennedy, Louise. The end of the world is a cul de sac / Louise Kennedy. First North American edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2021. "Stories"--Cover. "In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation--material, emotional, sexual--but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage"-- Provided by publisher. 20231212. Women Fiction. Short stories, Irish 21st century. Short stories. lcgft Domestic fiction. fast Kennedy, Louise (Ph. D.), First North American edition.