The Pumpkin Eater -

Penelope Mortimer

Penguin Classics

2015

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-10: 0241240107

'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this is a moving account of one woman's realisation that marriage and family life may not, after all, offer all the answers to the problems of living.

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4 (Muito bom)

Sabe quando tu lê o livro inteiro por causa de uma frase e ela tá no final? então.... mas foi uma experiência boa de leitura, me fez lembrar que odeio homens e que nunca nunca nunca quero ter filhos

"To be dead would be a perfect solution for me, I thought. But I couldn’t bear the idea of pain, the possibility that I would be a broken mess on the gravel, bleating for help."