Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

Madame Bovary of the Suburbs
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Publisher : MacLehose Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780857054692
ISBN-13 : 0857054694
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Book Synopsis Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by : Sophie Divry

Download or read book Madame Bovary of the Suburbs written by Sophie Divry and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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