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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

Name: Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
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ISBN: 9781635577631

Hilma Wolitzer

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A TIME " New Books You Should Read in August" The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" ( Boston Globe ), ripe for rediscovery-with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer-now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game-has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." ( Washington Post ) These collected short stories-most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post , in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present-are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of [...]her life. And in several...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Language:

English

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1635577632

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9781635577631