Leaving Sophie Dean
«Alexandra Whitaker takes the tried-and-true story of man leaves wife and kids for other woman and gives it a refreshing and surprisingly underutilized twist. LEAVING SOPHIE DEAN succeeds brilliantly as a comedy of manners because of Whitaker's pitch-perfect depictions of human foibles and graceful renderings of awkward situations. But the book works on a much deeper level too: as a meditation on marriage, solitude, personal freedom, and parenting that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. -- Meg Mitchell Moore, Author Of The Arrivals And So Far Away»
Adam and Sophie Dean's good-enough marriage could easily have lasted forever but Adam succumbs to pressure from his mistress to leave Sophie and in the course of his carefully prepared farewell speech, Sophie has a revelation: unless she leaves him in the family home in the role of primary caregiver, he'll have a severely diminished role in the lives of their two sons. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- 5 Spot
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780446583947
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
- Format
- 14 x 20 cm
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«Alexandra Whitaker takes the tried-and-true story of man leaves wife and kids for other woman and gives it a refreshing and surprisingly underutilized twist. LEAVING SOPHIE DEAN succeeds brilliantly as a comedy of manners because of Whitaker's pitch-perfect depictions of human foibles and graceful renderings of awkward situations. But the book works on a much deeper level too: as a meditation on marriage, solitude, personal freedom, and parenting that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. -- Meg Mitchell Moore, Author Of The Arrivals And So Far Away»