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The Needle's Eye
Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2004
- Pages: 427
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.96in - 5.32in - 1.17in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780156029353
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Classics
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About the Author
MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.
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What people are saying
Author #TheCureForSleep | Creator #WildPatience Scrolls: a Mile of Writing, #ConcentratesOfPlace & #BirdsOfFirle | FRSA | Write with me over on Substack…
@SitsmithandCo It does read like a poem, doesn’t it, that insistent rhythm, the gorgeous language. But it’s from a chapter of a novel called The Needle’s Eye by Margaret Drabble - one her lesser-read/known books I think, but the one closest to my heart because of how it celebrates the everyday
Praise for this book
PRAISE FOR THE NEEDLE'S EYE
"Though I have admired Miss Drabble's writing for years, I will admit that nothing she has written in the past quite prepared me for the depth and richness of this book." -Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times
"The Needle's Eye is that rare thing, a book one wishes were longer than it is."-The New York Review of Books
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What people are saying
Author #TheCureForSleep | Creator #WildPatience Scrolls: a Mile of Writing, #ConcentratesOfPlace & #BirdsOfFirle | FRSA | Write with me over on Substack…
@SitsmithandCo It does read like a poem, doesn’t it, that insistent rhythm, the gorgeous language. But it’s from a chapter of a novel called The Needle’s Eye by Margaret Drabble - one her lesser-read/known books I think, but the one closest to my heart because of how it celebrates the everyday