The pumpkin eater
Mortimer, Penelope, 1918-19992015
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'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...' In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this is a moving account of one woman's realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living.
Main title:
The pumpkin eater / Penelope Mortimer ; with an introduction by Daphne Merkin.
Author:
Mortimer, Penelope, 1918-1999, authorMerkin, Daphne, author of introduction
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
xi, 143 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin modern classics
ISBN:
9780241240106
Dewey class:
CL
Local class:
FICAFCL
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1442636
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