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Elaine

By Will Self

Elaine Contemporary literature

Elaine

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Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life. Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2024-09-05
Publication Date:
2024-09-05
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1804710474
ISBN13:
9781804710470
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
378 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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