Days of Our Lives
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Day of Our Lives is equal parts social history and memoir documenting the unraveling of a marriage against the backdrop of the shifting social mores of 1960s and '70s America. Joan Aleshire's speaker, a young wife, enters marriage gratefully, even eagerly, believing it to be "a long table / with friends crowding in, red wine / in tumblers." Motherhood follows, but so do infidelities and reconciliation and ultimately divorce. With each hard knock, the speaker sheds a little more of her innocence as she gains awareness of her power as both a woman and a writer: "Coming home / late from a festival for women / where I'd said all the things / the audience liked, I slipped / into bed so flush with triumph / my husband recoiled from the heat."
Book information
ISBN: | 9781945588365 |
Publisher: | Four Way Books |
Imprint: | Four Way Books |
Pub date: | 03 Sep 2019 |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 143 |
Weight: | 249g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 13mm |