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1 de ene. de 1971 · Penelope Mortimer. A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage and trying to make a new home for grown-up children who no longer need her. Dealing with themes of abandonment, loneliness, liberation and love, Eleanor’s emotional journey is often raw and dark, but at times funny and ...
Penelope Mortimer has 21 books on Goodreads with 14197 ratings. Penelope Mortimer’s most popular book is The Pumpkin Eater (Bloomsbury Classics).
Penelope Mortimer (de soltera, Fletcher) nació en 1918 en Rhyl, un pequeño pueblo del condado galés de Flintshire. Fue la hija pequeña de un clérigo anglicano que había perdido su fe. Tal era su desapego religioso y su odio por el Cristianismo que solía usar el boletín de la parroquia para, entre otras cosas, celebrar la persecución de la iglesia rusa por parte de los bolcheviques.
Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was the author of nine novels; one collection of short stories; two volumes of memoir, the Whitbread Prize-winning About Time and About Time Too; and a biography of the Queen Mother. Her screenwriting credits include the script for Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake is Missing (1964), which she co-wrote with her then husband John Mortimer. She was also a film critic ...
24 de mar. de 2023 · StuckinaBook All March 24, 2023 4 Comments. Last year, one of my favourite reads was Penelope Mortimer’s darkly funny 1970s novel The Home. Such is the surprising speed of things, sometimes at least, that less than a year later it is available as a British Library Women’s Writers title! It’s out now in the UK (and you can ship abroad for ...
11 de may. de 2022 · The protagonist of Penelope Mortimer’s 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, is a 37-year-old housewife named Ruth, who is sliding into a madness of midlife suffocation and despair.Alone in her ...
23 de oct. de 1999 · Penelope Mortimer, an English author who drew on her complex and often turbulent relationships with men in writing novels like ''The Pumpkin Eater'' and a heatedly debated account of the romantic ...
