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Loading... The Habit of Widowhood (original 1997; edition 1996)by Robert Barnard (Author)
Work InformationThe Habit of Widowhood by Robert Barnard (1997)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I like some Robert Barnard novels; others not so much. This collection of short stories was OK to read, but I won't keep the book. I liked this excerpt, from the story "The Stuff of Nightmares": "I've had a good life on the whole. Shame should be felt when you haven't done what you could have done, even though you wanted to." ( ) no reviews | add a review
"A young girl is brought up in seclusion by her elderly parents who are obsessed with isolating her from the sinfulness of life in the wicked world. When, to secure her future, they marry her off to an elderly widower, they set in motion events more terrible than the most hateful of parents could have foreseen." "A woman with an enticing sexual secret marries an elderly gentleman - and then another and another. It is all too easy, it seems, to get into the habit of widowhood." "A young soldier, home from World War I, is determined to live and love not just for himself, but for all his fallen comrades. But in doing so he enrages a number of husbands." "A man going through a midlife crisis meets the bully who made his life hell at school. Some things never change, he discovers, including the taste for inflicting pain." "And Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, marooned in the drafty gloom of Queen Victoria's Balmoral Castle, decides that adultery and gambling can be almost as troubling as how to spell words of more than one syllable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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