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A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is “a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a `man in the wake of ordeals.'”



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Gestures

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    A Paperback / softback by Ignacy Karpowicz, Maya Zakrzewska-Pim

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9781628971637, 978-1628971637
      ISBN10: 1628971630

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is “a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a `man in the wake of ordeals.'”



      Trade Review

      `He’s proven that he’s an extraordinarily multifaceted writer, one who handles various styles brilliantly.” -Robert Ostaszewski


      "An excellent psychological novel about a complex relationship between a mother and a son." -Ursula Philips

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