Book description
The stories collected in
Original Bliss
are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack
of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle
thinks she has lost God - but it is simply love that she's missing. She
can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly Mr Brindle, but will she
find it in Stuttgart when she meets the enigmatic Edward E. Gluck, with
his Process and his paraphernalia? And what happens when her father
confessor starts to confess? A beautiful and terrifying examination of
passion and pornography, of the aching need for completion and healing.
The author of five previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and five
collections of short stories, A. L. Kennedy's last novel, Day
, was the 2007 Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected as
one of Granta
's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards.
She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at
Warwick University.
