· Mapping the Edge: A Novel. by Sarah Dunant. 1. Do you think the book’s speculative agenda, its parallel narratives, explore a disquiet particularly characteristic of midlife? Is it an unrest limited to middle age? Why or why not? 2. · In Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant writes with wonderful intelligence about the dark intricacies of motherhood, friendship, love, and obsession. A brilliantly plotted, ruthlessly intelligent, and highly readable novel.”Pages: Sarah Dunant's writing has never been more edgy, more tantalising. She never shirks implications, never states the obvious. A novel of our time, unpredictable and tantalising, 'Mapping the Edge' uses standard contemporary romance tropes - Anna flying to meet her lover in Florence, the Gothic ghostly alternative story, mail-order dating - but Reviews:
In "Mapping the Edge," Sarah Dunant's impressionistic thriller, Anna, a single mother with a seven-year-old daughter, takes a break from her life for a short trip to Italy on her own. When she does not return her friends, Estella and Paul--she the best friend, he a (gay) chum of Anna's--act as surrogate parents and rush to Anna's house to. Transgressions. Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant's breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and female. Elizabeth Skorvecky has just come out of a long-term relationship with her boyfriend. Mapping the Edge: A Novel. by Sarah Dunant. Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn't return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes.
Sarah Dunant can write, of that there is no doubt, in fact I really like her style, but her storylines just seem to frustrate me. Mapping the Edge has three viewpoints or storylines going on all at once which come to a simultaneous time point at the end, however it just didn't work for me at all reading it as. In Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant writes with wonderful intelligence about the dark intricacies of motherhood, friendship, love, and obsession. A brilliantly plotted, ruthlessly intelligent, and highly readable novel.”. In "Mapping the Edge," Sarah Dunant's impressionistic thriller, Anna, a single mother with a seven-year-old daughter, takes a break from her life for a short trip to Italy on her own.
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