Wish Her Safe At Home
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Wish Her Safe At Home by Stephen Benatar
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far.In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.
Stephen Benatar is the author of nine novels, two plays, and two children's books. He was born in London in 1937. Benatar has exclusively had gay relationships since his divorce from his wife of twenty-nine years. He is the father of four children and the grandfather of twelve grandkids.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590173350 |
| ISBN 10 | 159017335X |
| Title | Wish Her Safe At Home |
| Author | Stephen Benatar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2010-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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