THE WOMAN WHO TALKED TO HERSELF by A. L. Barker ( 9780571259120 )

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Title:

THE WOMAN WHO TALKED TO HERSELF
AN ARTICULATED NOVEL

By:

A. L. Barker

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

057125912X

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9780571259120

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

21 January, 2010

Pages:

186

Description:

Looks at the life of a middle-aged storyteller, her fictional world and the individuals who inhabit it.

Synopsis:

A. L. Barker's engrossing novel looks at the life of a middle-aged storyteller, her fictional world and the individuals who inhabit it. Characters such as Mrs McSweeny and her husband Murdo who receive hallucinatory information about the Second Coming; or Elinor Dunphy, an elegant older woman visited by a beautiful and free-spirited young man who makes veiled sexual overtures to her; or Lalla, a divorcee, who falls in love with her son's form-master, only to learn that his apparent advances to her are just a cover for his passion for her son. These humorous yet tragic vignettes are all concerned with unfulfilled and usually perverted sexual relations - but how do they relate to the narrator's own successful marriage?

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