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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780812997538
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Hausfrau
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Topic
- Psychological, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812997530
ISBN-13
9780812997538
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202789366
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hausfrau
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-026118
Reviews
Advance praise for Hausfrau "With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. This is a rare and remarkable debut." --Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander "I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as it should be, according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It's a corrective novel, taking character, destiny, and our choices as seriously as a novelist can." --Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? "Hot damn is Hausfrau a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel. It casts a spell that doesn't stop working until that wonderful final line. Jill Alexander Essbaum has a seismic talent, and it shows on every page of her first novel. Just read this bad boy. Like right now." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver, Advance praise for Hausfrau "With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. A rare and remarkable debut." --Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander "I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as 'it should be,' according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It's a corrective novel, taking character, destiny and our choices as seriously as a novelist can." --Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, Advance praise for Hausfrau "A stunningly written, hauntingly paced book. Anna Benz has the weight of a classic heroine--isolated yet crowded--but she is utterly modern in Jill Alexander Essbaum's hands. Reading Hausfrau is like staring at a painting that simultaneously seduces and disturbs. Even when you want to turn away, you find your feet are planted to the floor." --Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake "With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. This is a rare and remarkable debut." --Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander "I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as it should be, according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It's a corrective novel, taking character, destiny, and our choices as seriously as a novelist can." --Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? "Hot damn, is Hausfrau a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel. It casts a spell that doesn't stop working until that wonderful final line. Jill Alexander Essbaum has a seismic talent, and it shows on every page of her first novel. Just read this bad boy. Like right now." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver "An exceptional debut [with] a heart-stopping climax . . . This portrait of a woman on the edge lingers long in the memory." --The Bookseller (U.K.) "The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife." -- Harper's Bazaar (U.K.), Advance praise for Hausfrau "With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. This is a rare and remarkable debut." --Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander "I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as it should be, according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It's a corrective novel, taking character, destiny, and our choices as seriously as a novelist can." --Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? "Hot damn, is Hausfrau a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel. It casts a spell that doesn't stop working until that wonderful final line. Jill Alexander Essbaum has a seismic talent, and it shows on every page of her first novel. Just read this bad boy. Like right now." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver "The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife." -- Harper's Bazaar (U.K.), Advance praise for Hausfrau "A stunningly written, hauntingly paced book. Anna Benz has the weight of a classic heroine--isolated yet crowded--but she is utterly modern in Jill Alexander Essbaum''s hands. Reading Hausfrau is like staring at a painting that simultaneously seduces and disturbs. Even when you want to turn away, you find your feet are planted to the floor." --Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There''d Be Cake "With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras''s The Lover and Anita Brookner''s Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. This is a rare and remarkable debut." --Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander "Over a century after the publication of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina , poet Essbaum proves in her debut novel that there is still plenty of psychic territory to cover in the story of ''a good wife, mostly.'' . . . The realism of Anna''s dilemmas and the precise construction of the novel are marvels of the form. . . . This novel is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending, and Anna is likely to provoke strong feelings in readers well after the final page." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Haunting." -- The Guardian (U.K.) "Riveting and shocking." --Marie Claire (U.K.) "A beautiful dissection of a marriage in crisis." -- Glamour (U.K.) "[Essbaum''s protagonist] shares more than her name with that classic adulteress, Anna Karenina, but Essbaum has given a deft, modern facelift to the timeless story of a troubled marriage and tragic love in this seductive first novel." -- Booklist " Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey ." --Sunday Express (U.K.) "An exceptional debut [with] a heart-stopping climax . . . This portrait of a woman on the edge lingers long in the memory." --The Bookseller (U.K.) "A racy mix of Gone Girl and Fifty Shades ." -- Grazia (U.K.) "With more than a passing resemblance to Anna Karenina . . . [and] likened to Fifty Shades of Grey . . . [ Hausfrau will] be a book club winner." -- Stylist (U.K.) "The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum''s debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife." -- Harper''s Bazaar (U.K.) "I loved this brilliant, insightful, and devastating novel about Anna: trains . . . adultery . . . the punctual, rigid Swiss . . . Jungian analysis . . . anhedonia . . . more adultery and more trains . . . and Jill Alexander Essbaum''s beautiful sentences strewn with sharp thorns that prick and cut straight into the heart of a woman''s unfulfilled life. I wish I had written it." --Lily Tuck, National Book Award-winning author of The News from Paraguay "I was mesmerized by this book. Hausfrau creates a complete, engrossing, and particular world where nothing is as easy as it should be, according to the hopeful stories we tell ourselves. It''s a corrective novel, taking character, destiny, and our choices as seriously as a novelist can." --Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? "Hot damn, is Hausfrau a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel. It casts a spell that doesn''t stop working until that wonderful final line. Jill Alexander Essbaum has a seismic talent, and it shows on every page of her first novel. Just read this bad boy. Like right now." --Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman's desperate soul." -- People Anna was a good wife, mostly.; For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning--"a modern-day Anna Karenina tale."* Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau "Elegant, erotic . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present." -- Chicago Tribune "For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring." --NPR's Weekend Edition "We're in literary territory as familiar as Anna's name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary and a poet's fascination with language." -- The Huffington Post "[ Hausfrau ;feels more contemporary, subjective, and just plain funny than classical bourgeois ennui. Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy." -- New York "Brain-surgically constructed to fascinate you, entertain you, and then make you question what a life lived with meaning looks like--all with a sense of poetic discipline and introspection." -- Los Angeles Magazine "[ Hausfrau ] is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey ." -- Sunday Express (U.K.) * Glamour (U.K.), "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, ""THE HUFFINGTON POST, "AND "SHELF AWARENESS""" In "Hausfrau, Anna Karenina" goes "Fifty Shades" with a side of "Madame Bovary." "Time" A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy. "O: The Oprah Magazine" Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman s desperate soul. "People" Anna was a good wife, mostly.For readers of "The Girl on the Train" and "The Woman Upstairs" comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno a banker and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can t easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it s difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum s debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for "Hausfrau" Elegant . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum s intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present. "Chicago Tribune" For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring. NPR s "Weekend Edition" We re in literary territory as familiar as Anna s name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight. "San Francisco Chronicle" This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory. "The Dallas Morning News" Essbaum s poignant, shocking debut novel rivets. "Us Weekly" A powerful, lyrical novel . . . "Hausfrau" boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary. "The Huffington Post" Imagine Tom Perrotta s American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zurich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy. "New York""
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