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Eleven Hours
Pamela Erens
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Description for Eleven Hours
Paperback. A fierce and fearless novel of complicated pasts, uncertain futures and of the organic, bloody beauty of childbirth and motherhood. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
'An immensely powerful, cannot-look-away novel of heart and bone and muscle and blood. The war novel has a rival... and it is breath-taking.' The Herald Lore arrives at the hospital alone: no husband, no partner, no friends. She is in labour. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward, herself newly pregnant, is assigned to her care. Over the spiralling course of eleven hours, the women are thrown together into a fierce, physical intimacy, and they begin to force one another to reckon with their pasts and their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love ... Read more
'An immensely powerful, cannot-look-away novel of heart and bone and muscle and blood. The war novel has a rival... and it is breath-taking.' The Herald Lore arrives at the hospital alone: no husband, no partner, no friends. She is in labour. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward, herself newly pregnant, is assigned to her care. Over the spiralling course of eleven hours, the women are thrown together into a fierce, physical intimacy, and they begin to force one another to reckon with their pasts and their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782399810
SKU
V9781782399810
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Pamela Erens
Pamela Erens' short fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in a wide variety of literary, cultural, and mainstream publications, including the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Salon, Tin House, Boston Review, and New England Review. For many years Pamela was an editor at Glamour magazine.
Reviews for Eleven Hours
Intense, provocative...a deeply rewarding high-wire act
The National
Extraordinary
Boston Globe
Exhilarating
Wall Street Journal
A story about birth, which is to say a story about life and death... A novel with the -adrenaline-rush pacing of an action movie
New York Times
I loved Eleven Hours... A gorgeous, haunting, slender novel
... Read more
The National
Extraordinary
Boston Globe
Exhilarating
Wall Street Journal
A story about birth, which is to say a story about life and death... A novel with the -adrenaline-rush pacing of an action movie
New York Times
I loved Eleven Hours... A gorgeous, haunting, slender novel
... Read more