The Pumpkin Eater - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Penelope Mortimer, Daphne Merkin (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2011-04-26Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173824ISBN-10:1590173821UPC:9781590173824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Family LifeSize:8.00 x 5.03 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC4909D962
The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173824ISBN-10:1590173821UPC:9781590173824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Family LifeSize:8.00 x 5.03 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC4909D962
Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999) was born Penelope Ruth Fletcher in North Wales, the younger of two children of an Anglican clergyman father and his wife. The family moved often, and Penelope was educated at half a dozen institutions before spending a year at the University of London. In 1937 she married the journalist Charles Dimont, with whom she had two daughters. Two more daughters by two...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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