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The days of abandonment / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Loaned to Another Library PQ4866.E6345 G5613 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrante, Elena, author.
- Series:
- Dal mondo
- Standardized Title:
- Giorni dell'abbandono. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italy.
- Depressed persons--Italy--Fiction.
- Depressed persons.
- Housewives--Italy--Fiction.
- Housewives.
- Italian fiction--Translations into English.
- Italian fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Europa Editions, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Translation of Giorni dell'abbandono.
- Summary:
- Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ferrante, Elena. Giorni dell'abbandono. English. Days of abandonment.
- ISBN:
- 1933372001
- 9781933372006
- OCLC:
- 61265658
- Publisher Number:
- 9871933372006 51495
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