Ebook {Epub PDF} The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward

Polly is secure and happy in her life, until the day her husband Arnold makes a very uncharacteristic www.doorway.ru Woodward's The Paper Lovers is a devastating story of sexual, religious and artistic obsession. It is about love and betrayal, and what becomes /5(12). Gerard Woodward. Pan Macmillan UK, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. This is the story of two married couples and an affair. The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward opens with a man who suddenly develops a crush on one of his wife's friends. As his affections deepen, he becomes aware that she too has feelings for him. Soon they transgress. Polly makes handcrafted paper, and even though the age of paper is dead, she runs a successful shop selling her exquisite products. Polly is secure and happy in her life, until the day her husband Arnold makes a very uncharacteristic declaration. Gerard Woodward's The Paper Lovers is a devastating story of sexual, religious and artistic obsession. It is about love and betrayal, and what becomes of us after /5(11).

The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward. J surreyedit Leave a comment. Arnold has a happy life. He is a university lecturer and poet and is married to Polly who owns a shop where she makes paper and they run a small poetry press together. They have a lovely daughter Evelyn and everything seems to ring with domestic bliss. The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward (Picador, £). To order a copy for £, go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. Polly is secure and happy in her life, until the day her husband Arnold makes a very uncharacteristic www.doorway.ru Woodward's The Paper Lovers is a devastating story of sexual, religious and artistic obsession. It is about love and betrayal, and what becomes of us after our greatest certainties have been shattered.

Woodward’s prose has a rare and wondrous texture that comes from his ongoing play between the comedic and tragic moments of his characters’ lives. The Paper Lovers is a beautifully wrought narrative with a devastating ending – an intimate exploration of requited and unrequited desire in all its forms. I couldn’t put it down till I was done, and then I wanted to laugh and cry all at once, at the sheer absurdity of being human. • The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward is published by Picador (£). To order a copy for £ go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward (Picador, £). To order a copy for £, go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only.