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The Lives of Women
After more than thirty years in New York City, Elaine Nichols returns home to Ireland to her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. As a pregnant teenager she was sent away to avoid scandal and possible legal consequences. Shuttling back and forth between two time zones--the 1970s and the present--and set in a Cheever-esque suburb of sadness and shame, The Lives of Women deals with the savagery of respectability, betrayal, and the desperation that ensues when a sixteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and feels she has no one to help her, apart from her friends. Hickey (The Cold Eye of Heaven, Last Train from Liguria) shows herself to be a storyteller of rare ability and a stylist of clarifying beauty.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: May 18th, 2018
- Pages: 152
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9781628972566
- Categories: • Literary• Women
About the Author
Dwyer Hickey, Christine: - Christine Dwyer Hickey is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer, teacher, and member of the Irish Arts Academy and Aosdána. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year award in 2012, and Tatty (2005) was named one of the Fifty Irish Books of the Decade. She divides her time between Ireland and Italy.
Praise for this book
"Dwyer Hickey is excellent on the flat horizons and banal twitterings of the suburbs...[she] writes with quiet power about the devastation of lives circumscribed by habit, fear and ignorance."-- "The Independent"
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's writing is both flowing and elegant."-- "The Bookbag"
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's The Lives of Women mines the chasm between adults and teenagers, and exposes the narcissism and cruelty that lie behind the respectable front of suburban life."-- "Sydney Morning Herald"
"Dwyer Hickey has done a fantastic job of honing in on that dangerous, delicate time between adolescence and adulthood. The terrifying truth in her novel is that it can all go so wrong so quickly when teenage emotions are left to run unchecked. A well-written and engaging novel."-- "WeLiveThisBook"
"The book's genre is hard to pin down. It is cast in two periods more than 30 years apart, and reads like a closely observed novel of manners - then and now. But since ...the sinister is never far from the surface of her prose, The Lives of Women reads at times like a suburban gothic and at others could be mistaken for a straight-up murder mystery."-- "Irish Times / Irish Times Book Club Pick"