The days of abandonment
(Book)

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Published
New York : Europa Editions, 2005, c2002.
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
FERRANT Elen
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Published
New York : Europa Editions, 2005, c2002.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
UPC
9871933372006

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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.