# What Becomes

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- Authors: [A.L. Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-08-05

## Description

A. L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour. From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day .

## Editions

### What Becomes

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0747-624-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2011-04-05
- Language: en_US

### What Becomes

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-406-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2010-08-05
- Language: en_GB