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Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a  stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in  Divorcing , a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie’s childhood in pre–World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts  Divorcing , however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life. Susan Taubes’s startlingly original [...]novel...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17586842
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1681374943
ISBN 13:
9781681374949
ISBN:
9781681374956, 1681374951, 9781681374949, 1681374943

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