At thirty, Aislinn Kelly is an occasional novelist with a
near-morbid attunement to the motives of those around her.
Isolated, restless and stuck, she decamps to America - a default
recourse - this time to an attic room in Indianapolis, to attempt
once again the definitive act of self-salvage. There are sharp
memories to contend with as the summer heats up, and not least
regarding her family history, now revealed as so botched and
pitiful it seems it might yet cancel her out. She's spent years
evading the attentions of her unstable, bullying father, only to
find her mother now cowering in a second rancid marriage. There are
also friendships lost or ailing: with bibulous playwright Karl, sly
poet Erwin, depressed bookshop-wallah Bronagh, and Aislinn's best
friend Cathy, who has recently found God... Finally her thoughts
turn to her last encounter with Jim Schmidt, a man she's loved for
ten years, hasn't seen for five, yet still has to consider her
opposite number in life. Opposed Positions is a startlingly frank
novel about the human predicament, about love and its substitutes,
disgraceful or otherwise. Some of these people want to be free - of
themselves, of each other - and some have darker imperatives. Wry,
shocking, perfectly observed and utterly heart-breaking, the novel
moves towards its troubling conclusion: a painful appreciation of
what it is we've come from, and what we might be heading for.
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