Daddy's Gone A-Hunting Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

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Publisher Description

A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—“her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)

Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties—routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.

First published in 1958, Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting shocked critics with its “feminine rage” (New York Times). It captures the suffocation of a repressive marriage and the desperate longing for connection between a mother and daughter who must join forces in a man’s world.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
May 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
McNally Editions
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
2.9
MB

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