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Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

Engelsk Paperback

Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

Engelsk Paperback

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The story of a woman''s life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.

She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.

But she''s bored.

She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal.

Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women''s lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry''s prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd.

Translated from the French by Alison Anderson









Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780857054708
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0857054708
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Udg. Dato:
12 jul 2018
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato:
12 jul 2018
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