Confessions with Keith

Pauline Holdstock

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English

Biblioasis
31 January 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis-her husband's 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 doesn't notice that herhouse 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 heroine's only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewise-in the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vita's journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves.

By: Pauline Holdstock
Imprint: Biblioasis
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 20mm
ISBN: 9781771964975
ISBN 10: 1771964979
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pauline Holdstock is an award winning novelist, short fiction writer and essayist. Her books have been published in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Brazil and Portugal. In Canada, her work has been short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and others, and has won the BC Book Prizes Award for Fiction and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She lives on Vancouver Island.

Reviews for Confessions with Keith

Praise for Pauline Holdstock Holdstock writes powerfully in Frankie's voice, drawing readers into his internal life ... absorbing. -Quill & Quire Pauline Holdstock enchants with a spell of delectable storytelling ... the novel's wonderment and delight in the possibilities of life is an effervescent tonic. -Vancouver Sun Captivating ... An intriguing mystery ... The novel finds its way with charming intrigue and humour. -Winnipeg Free Press Holdstock's 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 Post Pauline Holdstock's language is so powerful, her writing so wrought with emotion and beauty, that you become fully lost in her world. -Winnipeg Review