Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

by Penelope Mortimer

Book Overview

A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion--"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel" (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)

A bourgeois housewife, Ruth Whiting, is "paralysed by triviality," measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties--routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946022268
• ISBN13: 9781946022264
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: McNally Editions
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.2"