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After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what's worth fighting for - and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Summer Without Men
• Author: Siri Hustvedt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781444720259
• ISBN: 1444720252
• ID: 04382956
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Weight: 166 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 196 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. June 2011

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