An edition of The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

The pumpkin eater

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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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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
185

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De pompoeneter
2016-12-24, Lebowski
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Cover of: The pumpkin eater
The pumpkin eater
1995, Bloomsbury
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
London
Series
Bloomsbury classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6063.O815 P86 1995, PR6063.O815P86 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL895524M
ISBN 10
0747518874
LCCN
95186686
OCLC/WorldCat
36457358
Library Thing
392542
Goodreads
400361

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