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Literature & Fiction

Hutchinson

Long Distance

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.

The Pumpkin Eater

Penquin Books

<p>My Friend Says it's Bullet-Proof: (Penguin Book No. 3006)</p>

My Friend Says It's Bullet-proof

Penguin??Books

Three British women, a widow, her daughter, and a writer, try to cope with a handyman's unwelcome advances, a husband's infidelity, and loneliness

The Handyman

Queen Elizabeth. A Life Of The Queen Mother

History

Europe

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Queen Mother

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Andre Deutsch

The Pumpkin Eater (Penguin Modern Classics)

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

About Time Too: Autobiography 1940-1970

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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