The Pure Gold Baby
by Margaret Drabble
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1782111123
- ISBN 13
- 9781782111122
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Synopsis
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful sunny nature. But as it becomes clear that Anna will not be a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble’s characteristic intelligence, sympathy, and wit. Drabble once wrote, “Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.” Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant, prismatic novel that takes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.
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- Bookseller
- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GOR005936891
- Title
- The Pure Gold Baby
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 1782111123
- ISBN 13
- 9781782111122
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- This edition first published
- 2014
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