Bibliograph

The days of abandonment, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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The days of abandonment, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The days of abandonment

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

773693611

Responsibility statement

Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Summary

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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