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Mia Fredricksens tillvaro raseras i samma stund som hennes make Boris låter meddela att han vill ta en 'paus' i förhållandet
Mia Fredricksens tillvaro raseras i samma stund som hennes make Boris låter meddela att han vill ta en 'paus' i förhållandet
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789113032177 (9113032178)
Publish date: September 9th 2011
Publisher: Norstedts
Pages no: 203
Edition language: Swedish
Chick Lit is a dirty word. Reading other reviews of this novel, many expressed fear that this would be Chick Lit and therefore a waste of time. While I didn’t have the fortune of reading Chick Lit, I heard it’s full of romance and character drama. Why is that considered so bad while Game of Thrones ...
For me it was not a summer without men but rather with men only, 4 males under the same roof. Reading books was my way to escape a climate too heavily loaded with testosterone. This was my first read by Siri Hustvedt and I quite enjoyed it, it was light and I could easily warm up to Mia the main cha...
This is equal parts interesting, full of truth and - unfortunately - pretentious.
First sentence: "Sometime after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in the hospital."P. 99: "Comedies end in marriage, tragedies in death."Last sentence: "'You get it,' I said, 'Let him come to me.'"I bought this book immediately after reading a review about it in a Flemish newspaper and I...
Written in the first person and at times addressing the reader directly, ‘The Summer Without Men’ introduces us to Mia whose husband Boris is taking a pause in their marriage to have a fling with a co-scientist after 30 years of marriage and no warning that he had been feeling unfulfilled.We’re intr...
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