Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
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- Synopsis
- A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—&“her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel&” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is &“paralysed by triviality,&” measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties—routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself. First published in 1958, Daddy&’s Gone A-Hunting shocked critics with its &“feminine rage&” (New York Times). It captures the suffocation of a repressive marriage and the desperate longing for connection between a mother and daughter who must join forces in a man&’s world.
- Copyright:
- 1958
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 264 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781946022325
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781946022264
- Publisher:
- McNally Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 05/17/22
- Copyrighted By:
- the Estate of Penelope Mortimer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.