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Collection: Adult Fiction
Record 494 of 58904

Main Title:
Elaine : a novel / Will Self.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2025.
Collation:
290 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 2024.
Summary:
Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders - is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life. Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
ISBN:
9781804710494 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
FICTION
Language:
English
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BRN:
4006993
Bookmark Link:
https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=4006993

Holdings:

LocationCollectionCall NumberStatus/Desc
Andover
Adult Fiction

  • Onloan - Due: 02 Aug 2025
Fareham
Adult Fiction

  • Available
Gosport DC
Adult Fiction

  • Onloan - Due: 08 Aug 2025
Winchester Library
Adult Fiction

  • Onloan - Due: 18 Aug 2025