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| Genre/forme : | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Type d’ouvrage : | Fiction |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Sarah Gilbert |
| ISBN : | 0446516899 : 9780446516891 0446515272 9780446515276 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 26722271 |
| Description : | 197 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsabilité : | Sarah Gilbert. |
Résumé :
In some lives there comes one fateful day when things completely fall apart. For Pammy Outlaw, once fourth runner-up in the Miss America contest, it is laundry day, plain old ordinary laundry day, that leads to the worst discovery a woman married fifteen years can face - a hotel receipt for Mr. & Mrs. in her husband's pants pocket when the Mrs. wasn't her. Pammy has been so busy escorting her 13-year-old daughter on the beauty circuit, just as her mother, the former Miss New Jersey, had done with her, that she misses all the signs of a marriage in trouble. Actually, she has seen the handwriting on the wall, she just Formula 409-ed it off as quickly as possible.
Pammy has tried to be the perfect wife, supporting her husband's decision to return to college, tolerating his disdain of her taste for romances ("Frankly, unlike Flick, I prefer the books where in the end the woman gets the man and he screws her eyes out and they live happily ever after"), and only drawing the line at infidelity. What are her options? Fight to get her husband back? Go home to her mother in New Jersey? Find a new man to fill her empty nights? Try to keep her junior beauty queen daughter from suspecting her mommy and daddy have split for good? Pammy chooses all of the above, and the result is a moving, funny, and deeply felt look at a grandmother who wears white gloves in the summer, a daughter who enters puberty with a vengeance, and a feisty, thirty-something woman with a breaking heart, forced to discover who she really wants to be.
As sexy and outrageous as Sarah Gilbert's high-spirited previous works, but twice as wise, Summer Gloves will knock your socks off with its plain-talking, honest portrayal of a woman's true needs. It may even tempt you to slip on some summer gloves ... just for size.
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