Dancing In The Dark
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A gripping work of modern literary fiction, Dancing in the Dark chronicles the interior world of Edna, a seemingly perfect housewife who retreats into obsessive domestic routine as a means of coping with a life that has quietly unravelled around her. Joan Barfoot writes with piercing psychological precision, presenting a portrait of a woman whose outward compliance masks a profound inner disintegration. The novel unfolds as a sustained, claustrophobic monologue from a psychiatric ward, where Edna recounts the choices and sacrifices that led her to commit a shocking act of violence. Barfoot argues, through Edna's controlled and haunting voice, that the domestic ideal imposed on women can become a prison of the most suffocating kind. Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, this is a bold and unflinching examination of marriage, identity, and the quiet desperation that festers beneath a perfectly ordered surface.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A gripping work of modern literary fiction, Dancing in the Dark chronicles the interior world of Edna, a seemingly perfect housewife who retreats into obsessive domestic routine as a means of coping with a life that has quietly unravelled around her. Joan Barfoot writes with piercing psychological precision, presenting a portrait of a woman whose outward compliance masks a profound inner disintegration. The novel unfolds as a sustained, claustrophobic monologue from a psychiatric ward, where Edna recounts the choices and sacrifices that led her to commit a shocking act of violence. Barfoot argues, through Edna's controlled and haunting voice, that the domestic ideal imposed on women can become a prison of the most suffocating kind. Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, this is a bold and unflinching examination of marriage, identity, and the quiet desperation that festers beneath a perfectly ordered surface.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A gripping work of modern literary fiction, Dancing in the Dark chronicles the interior world of Edna, a seemingly perfect housewife who retreats into obsessive domestic routine as a means of coping with a life that has quietly unravelled around her. Joan Barfoot writes with piercing psychological precision, presenting a portrait of a woman whose outward compliance masks a profound inner disintegration. The novel unfolds as a sustained, claustrophobic monologue from a psychiatric ward, where Edna recounts the choices and sacrifices that led her to commit a shocking act of violence. Barfoot argues, through Edna's controlled and haunting voice, that the domestic ideal imposed on women can become a prison of the most suffocating kind. Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, this is a bold and unflinching examination of marriage, identity, and the quiet desperation that festers beneath a perfectly ordered surface.
