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Everest

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9780349703329

Price: £16.99

ON SALE: 7th November 2024

Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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What happens when you reach Everest’s peak? Is it everything you dreamed?

In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis’ debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire – its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us – and the strange things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.

A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention – to the detriment of his carefully curated reputation; a woman seeking her exes’ opinions on a breast augmentation takes us on a whirlwind tour of the complicated, intertwined lives of urbanites; a singer prepares for her film debut, pushing her humanity to its limits at an unusual acting school; a newlywed couple put their marriage to the ultimate test: Everest. In these twenty-one striking stories, Lewis creates a stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories.