{"product_id":"daddys-gone-a-hunting","title":"Daddy's Gone A-Hunting","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDaddy's Gone A-Hunting\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePenelope Mortimer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781946022264\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMcNally Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback Original\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion--\"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel\" (Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is \"paralysed by triviality,\" measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties--routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1958, \u003ci\u003e Daddy's Gone A-Hunting\u003c\/i\u003e shocked critics with its \"feminine rage\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). It captures the suffocation of a repressive marriage and the desperate longing for connection between a mother and daughter who must join forces in a man's world.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | Penelope Mortimer | Book | 9781946022264 | New | Fiction 1417940","offer_id":48162822881432,"sku":"1417940","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/31ItTa0bGjL.jpg?v=1771873711","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/daddys-gone-a-hunting","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}