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The life of the mind : a novel / Christine Smallwood.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.M3578 L54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smallwood, Christine, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women college teachers--Fiction.
- Women college teachers.
- Miscarriage.
- Miscarriage--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Self-realization in women--Fiction.
- Self-realization in women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hogarth, [2021]
- Summary:
- "As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things off with the first. It's not so much that Dorothy is ashamed of the miscarriage itself as she is of the sense of purpose the prospect of motherhood had provided, of how much she'd wanted it. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the victories of feminism. So why does she feel like a failure? (That's another thing she's ashamed of.) "--Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Smallwood, Christine, 1981- The life of the mind
- ISBN:
- 9780593229897
- 0593229894
- OCLC:
- 1157930671
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