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Bezig met laden... The Trouble Makers (1963)door Celia Fremlin
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Poor Mary. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. All of the housewives on the block complain about their domineering husbands, their noisy children, and their dreary chores. The women's only consolation lies in getting together to vent their frustrations and share the latest gossip. But when Mary spies a man in a raincoat, lurking about the neighborhood, she develops a panicky obsession with the stranger that her friends can't soothe -- and the frustrations of everyday life suddenly take a sinister turn. In this terrifying mystery classic, Edgar Award-winning novelist Celia Fremlin blends the desperation of 1960s domesticity with gripping suspense. "Women will identify and commiserate," noted Kirkus Reviews. The New Yorker characterized the novel as "married hell in a London suburb.... The outcome, as precisely charted by Miss Fremlin, is practically strangulating. A truly superior thriller." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Favorite lines/observations (out of many):
"'If only the average wife would understand that! She always thinks that if her way of looking at life is different from her husband's, then she must either 'give in' and change to his ways, or else she must 'stand up for herself,' 'preserve her integrity' and so forth through a lifetime of rows and scenes. But usually she doesn't need to do either. All she needs to do is to teach him to like her way of seeing things. But actually to like it--to enjoy seeing the world in this new way. And usually he's ready enough to learn. He probably wants to learn--that's why he married her in the first place, because this was something he wanted.'"
"'Everybody can bring children up in the way they can bring them up,' she concluded, her eyes filling with tears. 'The books all make it sound as if you have some sort of choice, but you haven't. You have to bring them up according to the sort of person you are, and that's all there is to it.'" ( )