Confessions with Keith : extracts from the journals of Vita Glass / Pauline Holdstock.
"An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis--her husband's and her own. Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesn't notice that her house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Meanwhile, Vita's eldest son is embarking on his professional career as a teenaged stoner, her eldest daughter can't be seen in public with her lest she succumb of mortal embarrassment, her younger son's gerbils won't stop having babies, and the baby of the family suffers debilitating grief over certain memories, including the thought of the Cats soundtrack and that one time she stepped on a hornet's nest. Plus the family dog is a Greek chorus of puke. Vita can barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off. Our heroine's only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewise--in the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vita's journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves."--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771964975 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 251 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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General Note: | "A John Metcalf Book." |
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Middle-aged women > Fiction. Midlife crisis > Fiction. Women authors > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Novels. |
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Lakeshore Branch | FIC Holds | 31681010292886 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |