The Female of The Species - Lionel Shriver

The female of the species - Lionel Shriver
Penguin Books 1988, ©1987
405 pages ; 20 cm
Kieli: englanti
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books 1988, ©1987.
Sarja    Contemporary American fiction
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Summary:The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible--and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love--before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence

 

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