Foreign parts / Janice Galloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galloway, Janice.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots--Travel--France--Normandy--Fiction.

Scots.

Scots--Travel.

France--Normandy.

Travelers--France--Normandy--Fiction.

Travelers.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Single women--Scotland--Fiction.

Single women.

Scotland.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1995.

Summary:

What begins as a driving holiday in Northern France for two Scotswomen turns into a caustic and funny account of dysfunctional relationships - both between men and women and between women friends. Cassie and Rona - in their late thirties, both single and childless - are on each other's nerves from the moment they cross the Channel: Cassie is testy and cynical, Rona patient and plodding. Both are self-conscious of the fact that they seem to fit the stereotype of two "spinsters" linked by loneliness, and consequently rebel against the notion that a woman needs a man to feel "complete". Faced with the dilemma of "fancying men and not liking them very much", the women ponder the alternatives as they endure one tourist nightmare after another.

ISBN:

1564780821

OCLC:

32429839