Is Emilia the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, so she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, but she pushes him - accidentally - into a pond in Central Park. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone? "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" is funny, candid and raw, a humorous and emotional novel about family in today's fractured society. Set among high-achieving Manhattanites, it announces the arrival of an exciting new American voice.
- ISBN10 0385515308
- ISBN13 9780385515306
- Publish Date 3 February 2006 (first published 2 January 2006)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 19 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Doubleday Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English