The Pumpkin Eater
By Penelope Mortimer
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
By Penelope Mortimer
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
By Penelope Mortimer
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
By Penelope Mortimer
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
Category: Literary Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction
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$18.95
Apr 26, 2011 | ISBN 9781590173824
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Apr 26, 2011 | ISBN 9781590174005
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Praise
“A subtle, fascinating, unhackneyed novel . . . in touch with human realities and frailties, unsentimental and amused. . . .So moving, so funny, so desperate, so alive. . . . [A] fine book, and one to be greatly enjoyed.”
—Elizabeth Janeway, The New York Times
“A strange, fresh, gripping book. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several layers of skin off the subjects of motherhood, marriage, and monogamy, so that what we’re asked to look at is frequently red-raw and painful without being remotely self-dramatizing. In fact, there’s a dreaminess to some of the prose that is particularly impressive, considering the tumult that the book describes.”
—Nick Hornby, The Believer
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