A Lifetime Burning

by Ellen Douglas

Book Overview

So spontaneous is the writing in A Lifetime Burning, one might believe these are indeed words of a woman desperately trying to understand what has happened to her life, beginning with the fact that her husband has stopped sleeping with her.

Why? Is there a rival--perhaps "The Toad," the unattractive housewife next door--or someone else, who will completely surprise the reader, as do many of the events of the protagonist's story? At...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394527194
• ISBN13: 9780394527192
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.