Original bliss
"The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. Whether in Copenhagen or New York City, in the close confines of a TV wardrobe department or in weightless outer space, A. L. Kennedy's characters are engaged in possibly fruitless attempts to close down emotional distances and fill a physical void." "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 paraphilia? And what happens when her father confessor starts to confess?"--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 1997
Jonathan Cape, London, 1997