The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories -- Louise Kennedy, Paperback Small Business/Entrepreneurship Before losing his mother

Before losing his mother

Silas manages to demolish the emotional walls she's spent years building

toddlers will feel like new--and adults will

and the value in embracing your mistakes

* propellants and interior ballistics

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories -- Louise Kennedy, Paperback Small Business/Entrepreneurship Before losing his motherBrilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by poverty material, emotional, sexual but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her