- Crimes against, Divorced women, Fiction, Women
Gripping suspense and penetrating insight combine in this best selling novel about a woman determined to survive in the shadow of disappointment, change, and the growing certainty that someone is out to get her.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Diane Johnson
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Plume, Bodley Head, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394711935
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