Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-13
9781444710540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106455765
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Summer Without Men
Author
Siri Hustvedt
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
197mm
Item Width
133mm
Item Weight
166g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Siri Hustvedt
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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