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Breathing on Glass

Breathing on Glass

Jennifer Cryer

9781408703571

Little Brown


Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback

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Rhea - dark, intense and brilliant - and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands between them. Lewis is Amber's husband and the ferociously driven director of the biotech lab where Rhea is a rising star. In search of funding, academic advancement and in alchemical pursuit of the perfect stem cell - their Holy Grail in one flawlessly reproducing genetic blueprint - Rhea and Lewis inhabit a rarefied world. Putting their trust in science, they are blinkered against the fatal human element: sex and envy, treachery and error. Amber, however, desperate for a child and embarking on fertility treatment, must confront precisely this flawed physicality, and a Faustian pact is forged. As the three are increasingly drawn into a transgressive relationship, the result is a series of betrayals that none, finally, will be able to forgive. Breathing on Glass is both coolly analytical and erotically subversive in its exploration of passion and power intertwined, and breeds a whole DNA sequence of cautionary tales: on weakness, temptation, ambition and the limits of science.

By:   Jennifer Cryer
Imprint:   Little Brown
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 25mm,  Width: 220mm,  Spine: 138mm
Weight:   342g
ISBN:  

9781408703571


ISBN 10:   1408703572
Publication Date:   June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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'Breathing on Glass is a pleasure to read: absorbing, authoritative, exciting ... Exceptional ... It's a rare achievement ... breathtakingly good, fascinating and funny ... The relationship between the two sisters, its tenderness and its deep history and its treacheries, is marvellously realised ... The whole management of suspense and tension in the novel is masterly' -- Tessa Hadley, Author Of Orange Longlisted The London Train

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