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Elaine
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Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity. Guardian Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders... is this it? As she...
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A brilliant portrait of motherhood, sublimated desire and the reverberations of the Cold War in a novel that investigates and reimagines the life of the author's mother.
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Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity. Guardian
Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders... is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.
Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
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ISBN: 9781804710494
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Grove Press
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes; How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark; Phone; the memoir Will; and the essay collection Why Read. He lives in South London.
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