An edition of The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

The pumpkin eater

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The pumpkin eater
Penelope Mortimer
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An edition of The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

The pumpkin eater

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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.

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Cover of: De pompoeneter
De pompoeneter
2016-12-24, Lebowski
in Dutch
Cover of: The pumpkin eater
The pumpkin eater
2010, New York Review Books
in English
Cover of: Pumpkin Eater
Pumpkin Eater
October 1, 1986, Laurel
in English
Cover of: The Pumpkin eater.
The Pumpkin eater.
1984, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The pumpkin eater
The pumpkin eater
1964, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater
1962, Hutchinson
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
New York review books classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6063.O815 P86 2010, PR6063.O815 P86 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24524833M
ISBN 13
9781590173824
LCCN
2010034049
OCLC/WorldCat
650211732

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