Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

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Synopsis
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(P)2017 WF Howes Ltd
Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780857058317
Related ISBNs:
9780857054685
Publisher:
Quercus
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Les Editions Noir sur Blanc
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Narrated By:
Billie Fulford-Brown
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Social Studies, Humor
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Alison Anderson

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