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Roxy

Roxy

by Esther Gerritsen
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/05/2020

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Roxy's life is turned upside down when her husband is killed in a car crash, his naked body found entangled with his lover's.

Twenty-seven-year-old Roxy is left behind with their daughter, her husband's personal assistant, and their babysitter to come to terms with this shameful end to her marriage.

Looking to break free from her grief, Roxy takes the three of them on an impromptu road trip filled with darkly humorous observations about loss, parental responsibility, and the expiration date of love.

Through masterful dialogues and in her trademark lucid style, Gerritsen introduces the reader to a woman whose response to grief both shocks and endears.

ISBN:
9781642860405
9781642860405
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-05-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
World Editions LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
213x137x23mm
Weight:
0.27kg

"Roxy is a splendid little book about a fascinating yet troubling protagonist, with Gerritsen’s stripped-back language providing a very readable and direct narrative."
European Literature Network 

"A raw, unsettling book."
Daily Mail

"A novel you devour in one sitting: elegiac, beautiful, and very strong."
Herman Koch, author of The Dinner

"Some sentences in Roxy are as if carved in stone; like Samuel Beckett, Gerritsen knows how to capture moments of terrifying precision and darkness."
De Morgen

"Even more than we have grown used to, in Roxy Gerritsen strips her scenes and language to the bone, leaving us with the core, which is ridiculously good."
Opzij Literature Prize

Esther Gerritsen

Esther Gerritsen is a Dutch novelist, columnist, and playwright. She is one of the most established, widely read, and highly praised authors in the Netherlands, and makes regular appearances on radio and at literary festivals.

Esther Gerritsen had the honor of writing the Dutch Book Week gift in 2016, which had a print-run of 700,000 copies. In 2014 she was awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her oeuvre.

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