The Summer Without Men

by Siri Hustvedt | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1444710540 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Pebbletool of Berlin (irgendwo/somewhere), Berlin Germany on 12/29/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by Pebbletool from Berlin (irgendwo/somewhere), Berlin Germany on Sunday, December 29, 2013
"Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman.
Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along
b) angrily declare the marriage over
c) crack up
d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup?
Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers."

"... In fact, reading fiction is often regarded as a womanly pursuit these days. Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel, he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings conconted by someone with the goods on the inside." (p. 172) -> I really had to laugh :D

"... I volunteered that Hollywood films were now made exclusively for fourteen-year-old boys, an audience of limited sophistication, which had drained the movies of even the hope of sprightly dialogue. Farts, vomit, and semen had taken its place. " (p.180)

It was a pleasure to read. I enjoyed it very much as it is at times sarcastic, has sad and very happy moments in it and just the various aspects of life & death. I am happy that I decided to read it as I was already considering just releasing it as the description didn't really get me...

Journal Entry 2 by Pebbletool at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Berlin Germany on Saturday, January 18, 2014

Released 10 yrs ago (1/18/2014 UTC) at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Berlin Germany

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Given to a non-bookcrossing-friend :)

Journal Entry 3 by Pebbletool at Berlin (irgendwo/somewhere), Berlin Germany on Friday, August 1, 2014
Home again & ready to travel further :)

Journal Entry 4 by Pebbletool at Berlin (irgendwo/somewhere), Berlin Germany on Thursday, February 18, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (2/18/2016 UTC) at Berlin (irgendwo/somewhere), Berlin Germany

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smh will be the lucky one to send this book on the road again after it lived for a way too long time on my shelf :)

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