Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision,it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child.
Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere,forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper,secretly she does what she has to do - she writes.
She craves intellectual stimulation,activity,loving understanding,instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and'pull herself together'. Here,slowly but surely,the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780860682011Number of pages: 64Weight: 80 gDimensions: 199 x 134 x 9 mm
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Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant to you today and especially to such young audience,I can assure you that this is not the caseA great work of literature,the product of a questing,burning intellectI loved it. I loved the unnerving,sarcastic tone,the creepy ending,the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth century
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Visit the Charlotte Perkins Gilman author pageMaggie O'Farrell
Waterstones has been a keen early advocate of Maggie O'Farrell since we identified her as a talent to watch in our 25 Authors of the Future list back in 2007 aftersupporting her brilliant debutAfter You'd Gone. Since then she's continued to impress with novels including:Instructions for a Heatwave,The Hand That First Held Mine(for which she won the Costa Book Award) and This Must Be the Place.
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