A house and its head
Compton-Burnett, Ivy , 1884-1969
A house and its head / Ivy Compton-Burnett ; afterword by Francine Prose - New York : New York Review Books , 2001. - 291 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth's wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone's relief, in murder.
9780940322646
00011546
Remarried people----Fiction
Widowers---Palestine ----Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Murder----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR6005.O3895 / H6 2001
FIC COM
A house and its head / Ivy Compton-Burnett ; afterword by Francine Prose - New York : New York Review Books , 2001. - 291 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. No sooner has Duncan Edgeworth's wife died than he takes a new, much younger bride whose willful ways provoke a series of transgressions that begins with adultery and ends, much to everyone's relief, in murder.
9780940322646
00011546
Remarried people----Fiction
Widowers---Palestine ----Fiction
Adultery ----Fiction
Murder----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR6005.O3895 / H6 2001
FIC COM