Cover of Elaine

Elaine

 Sample

Get 30 days of Standard free

€5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for €0.00
More purchase options

Elaine

By: Will Self
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Try for €0.00

€5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for €17.71

Buy Now for €17.71

Season's Savings | 0.99 €/month for 3 months

5.99 €/month thereafter - terms apply. Cancel monthly.
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.©2024 Will Self (P)2024 W.F. Howes Ltd Biographical Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction World Literature
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet