Madame Bovary of the Suburbs Hardback
by Sophie Divry
Hardback
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The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.
She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies.
All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.
But she's bored. She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last.
But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled.
Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal. Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world.
Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:25/07/2017
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- ISBN:9780857054685
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:25/07/2017
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- ISBN:9780857054685