The most / Jessica Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Jessica, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delaware--Fiction.

Delaware.

Housewives--Fiction.

Housewives.

Nineteen fifties--Fiction.

Nineteen fifties.

Marital conflict--Fiction.

Marital conflict.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Secrecy--Fiction.

Secrecy.

Genre:

novellas.

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Little, Brown paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024

Summary:

"It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won't come out. A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, The Most breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real."-- Provided by publisher.

"It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Kathleen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won't come out. A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, The Most breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0316576379

9780316576376

9781529928877

1529928877

OCLC:

1408650489