HUSTVEDT, Siri Additional Author mixed material bibliography London Sceptre 2011 en English

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216 p.; 20 cm. After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what's worth fighting for - and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes. Interpersonal relations - Fiction Women poets - Fiction Divorced women - Fiction F 9781444720259 RAFFLES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL To Learn , To Lead , To Love F HUS s s1505073 9781444720259.jpg.jpg 9500 2017-02-01 08:48:39 2017-02-01 08:48:39 machine generated