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

Mortimer, Penelope

Penquin Books

Portrait in Brownstone.

Louis Auchincloss

Literature & Fiction

The Railway Accident and Other Stories

Upward, Edward

Contemporary

Seven Days of Creation, The

Maximov Vladimir

A Death Out of Season (Faces of terror / Emanuel Litvinoff)

Litvinoff, Emanuel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Just Relations (A King Penguin)

Hall, Rodney

History & Criticism

D.H. Lawrence: Life Into Art

SAGAR, Keith

<p>The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.</p>
<p>"A major contibution to Native American literature." —Wallace Stegner.</p>

Fools Crow: a Novel. [Story about the Lone Eaters, a Small Band of Pikuni (Blackfeet) in the Two Medicine Territory of Montana,1870].

James Welch

United States

Sport Of Nature

This novel is about Hellela, a Jewish South African girl abandoned by her parents. Stretching from the turbulent 1960s this book goes from the beaches of West Africa to the slums of London, and from Washington to the presidential palace of an African nation.

Sport of Nature

GORDIMER, NADINE

World Literature

Painting in Blood

Françoise Sagan

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