Word: dipsomaniacal
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...mesmerising tensions and hot sweat, we cut away our languages, our names, and in return for this tiny effort we are given our wonderful smile and it protects us, because God is on our side." Like God, Hannah too loves a drunk. His name is Robert Gardener, a dipsomaniac of a dentist, and though he seems to make her whole ("Nobody is complete - we all need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere...