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21%OFFSiri Hustvedt - The Summer without Men - 9781444720259 - V9781444720259
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The Summer without Men

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Description for The Summer without Men Paperback. An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 B&W. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
161g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444720259
SKU
V9781444720259
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About Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She ... Read more

Reviews for The Summer without Men
A wonderful, surprising and elegant read... One of the best books I've read this year.
Red
The Summer Without Men is not a plot-driven novel - its pleasures lie in the precise, lyrical style, the quality of thought and the complexities of the characters.
Brendan Robshaw, Independent on Sunday
Mia is a quicksilver, engaging guide, who ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Summer without Men


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