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The Misogynist Piers Paul Read

The Misogynist By Piers Paul Read

The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read


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Summary

Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage, often trying to pinpoint when, and why, it all went wrong.

The Misogynist Summary

The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read

Jomier broods. He broods about the present, He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more to say about the present, he returns to the past, copying entries from old notebooks onto his computer. Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage, often trying to pinpoint when, and why, it all went wrong. With little now left to fill his time other than formulaic middle-class dinner parties, Jomier seeks refuge in his journals, recalling those years when he had expectations and when he was still loved by his wife. Then Jomier falls for Judith and life starts to improve as, cautiously, they start an affair. But old habits die hard and patterns repeat themselves. It is only when Jomier's daughter falls ill with a rare blood disorder that Jomier finally begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive. Darkly humorous, ruthlessly satirical and at times surprisingly moving, "The Misogynist" is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally let past disappointments affect our present, and how difficult it can be to move forward.

The Misogynist Reviews

'Piers Paul Read is one of Britain's most intelligent and disturbing writers' New York Times Book Review 'Marvellously comic, superbly inventive ... one of the most arresting British novelists to have appeared in years' The Times 'Undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of his generation' Francis King, Sunday Telegraph 'A storyteller of the first order, as refreshing as it is rare among the bedraggled ranks of contemporary novelists' Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare

About Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read was born in Buckinghamshire and studied History at Cambridge University. His books include the novel Monk Dawson, for which he won a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and A Married Man which was dramatised for television in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. A work of non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into the 1993 film Alive. In 1988 he was awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel, A Season in the West. Piers Paul Read lives in London.

Additional information

GOR002123129
9781408805657
1408805650
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010-07-05
272
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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