Libro Our Spoons Came From Woolworths De Barbara Comyns

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

New York Review Of Books

Autor

Barbara Comyns

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781590178966

N° edición

Categorías

Ficción literaria

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Barbara Comyns (Autor) · New York Review Of Books · Tapa Blanda

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“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.