Catherine Lacey: Certain American States [2019] paperback Condition:New Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets

men whose world views stand them poles apart

How far can we run from the past

Martin Hayes spent his childhood on a farm in County Clare

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Catherine Lacey: Certain American States [2019] paperback Condition:New Last Letters of Jacopo OrtisCertain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing. A grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as 'The Company', checks in to a room in a strange and remarkable hotel.