Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Bennett, Claire-Louise

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most...
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Author: Claire-Louise Bennett
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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Bennett, Claire-Louise

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

$44.37

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

$44.37
Author: Claire-Louise Bennett
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers

The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she's left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept.

An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she's loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage -a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss--make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.

Author: Claire-Louise Bennett
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 10/21/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.75w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9798217046645


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2025 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2025
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2025

About the Author
Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of two previous novels, Pond and Checkout 19. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. She lives near Galway, Ireland.

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