{"product_id":"books-madame-bovary-of-the-suburbs-by-sophie-divry","title":"Madame Bovary of the Suburbs","description":"The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.   She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.   But she's bored.   She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic house-cleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocussed and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her, because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is non-descript, flat, horizontal.  Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind readers of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd.  Translated from the French by Alison Anderson","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508394844433,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780857054708.jpg?v=1778146002","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-madame-bovary-of-the-suburbs-by-sophie-divry","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}