Bibliograph

The life of the mind, a novel, Christine Smallwood

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The life of the mind, a novel, Christine Smallwood

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The life of the mind

Oclc number

1157930671

Responsibility statement

Christine Smallwood

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things off with the first. It's not so much that Dorothy is ashamed of the miscarriage itself as she is of the sense of purpose the prospect of motherhood had provided, of how much she'd wanted it. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the victories of feminism. So why does she feel like a failure? (That's another thing she's ashamed of.) "--Provided by publisher

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