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The days of abandonment / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
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.
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- ISBN: 1933372001
- ISBN: 9781933372006
- Physical Description: 188 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2005.
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| General Note: | "Thirteenth printing, 2016"--Title page verso. |
| Language Note: | Translation of Giorni dell'abbandono. |
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| Subject: | Depressed persons > Italy > Fiction. Housewives > Italy > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Fiction. |
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