Author of the international bestseller Pig Tales, Darrieussecq's
second novel is a deeply unsettling exploration of the bewildering
and frightening experiences of a woman whose husband suddenly
vanishes. She finds herself musing upon the routine normality of
their lives but as the days pass and she is no nearer to
understanding his disappearance, her world begins to take on
strange dimensions. Every word of this haunting novel not only
evokes the extreme stresses of the situation, but also the way love
appears and disappears, reflecting the absences and evasions that
can lie hidden in any relationship. This is an extraordinary novel.
(Kirkus UK)
What would you think if your husband, one day, with no word of
explanation or warning, vanished? When would you begin to panic -
the first hour, the first night? A deceptively simple story about a
deserted woman, My Phantom Husbandis Marie Darrieussecq's eerie
follow-up to Pig Tales, showing her to be a writer of great
subtlety and depth. When her husband goes to buy fresh bread and
never returns, the young narrator's life changes for ever. Night
after night she has to learn to be alone, to sleep alone, to live
in a space she has shared with a man for seven years. Yet who was
he, her husband, and did they really have much in common? Why can't
she remember her love for him - or even what he looked like?
Dragged into a world of visions, she is besieged by childhood
terrors - monsters behind the furniture, vampires floating around
in the dark, strangers walking in other rooms. She begins to see
her husband, or an apparition of him. Is he a supernatural
visitation or the product of madness - or a figment of her guilty
conscience? My Phantom Husband is a profoundly unsettling parable
about the way love appears and disappears, about the absences and
evasions that can lie hidden in any relationship.
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