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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.… (más)
bluepiano: Another narrator who intends to begin life anew in a new house and who unwittingly reveals her subsequent psychological deterioration. Benatar's book is more striking but Ashworth's is huge fun.
Sin pensárselo deja atrás su aburrida vida en Londres, se despide de su trabajo de oficinista y de su deprimente compañera de piso y se transforma de la noche a la mañana en la mujer que siempre quiso ser: devota del amor, la creatividad y la belleza, y siempre con una canción en los labios. Instalada en su nueva casa, Rachel contrata los servicios de un jardinero, empieza a escribir un libro e impresiona a todos con su optimismo insano. Sin embargo, a medida que Rachel se sumerge más y más en un mundo de lujo y de placeres, su entorno empieza a cuestionar lo excéntrico de su comportamiento y lo enfermizo de su euforia.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As before, this book is lovingly dedicated to my family--with, now, a pecial thank you to Prue, for suggesting minor but useful alterations for the present edition. (Also, a thank you to your cohorts, Katie and Pascale).
It is dedicated, too, to Charlotte Barrow. I'll always be grateful that--back in 1982--you rescued my manuscript from the slush pile.
And, lastly, to my partner John. Thanks, doll.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
My great-aunt in middle age became practically a recluse and when she died I remembered very little of her, because the last time I'd visited that stuffy basement flat in St. John's Wood had been thirty-seven years earlier, in 1944, when I was only ten.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I had meant to say: "Oh, fiddle-dee-fuck, my dears! Just fiddle-dee-fuck!"
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.
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