The life of the mind : a novel
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Published
London : Hogarth, [2021].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Smallwood, C
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Fiction Smallwood, C
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Published
London : Hogarth, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40030457293
Notes
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"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things off with the first. It's not so much that Dorothy is ashamed of the miscarriage itself as she is of the sense of purpose the prospect of motherhood had provided, of how much she'd wanted it. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the victories of feminism. So why does she feel like a failure? (That's another thing she's ashamed of.) "--Provided by publisher.
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