Book
The days of abandonment
Call Number
- FICTION FERR (OSH)
Languages
Translation of Giorni dell'abbandono.
Publication Information
New York : Europa Editions, 2005.
Physical Description
188 pages ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Series
Summary
Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.
Notes
"Thirteenth printing, 2016"--Title page verso.