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An edition of The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

The pumpkin eater

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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.

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Penguin
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1986, Hutchinson
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October 1, 1986, Laurel
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1986, Laurel
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1984, Penguin
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1978, Penguin
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The pumpkin eater.
1978, Penguin Books
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The pumpkin eater
1975, Daughters, inc
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The Pumpkin Eater
1969, Penguin Books
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The Pumpkin Eater
1966-01-01, Penguin Books
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The pumpkin eater
1964, Penguin Books
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The pumpkin eaters.
1964, Penguin books
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The pumpkin eater
1964, Penguin
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The Pumpkin Eater
1964-01-01, Penguin
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The pumpkin eater
1964, Penguin Books
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The pumpkin eater.
1963, McGraw-Hill
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The pumpkin eater
1963-01-01, McGraw-Hill
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The Pumpkin Eater
1963, Lancer Books
Paperback in English
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The pumpkin eater
1963, Hutchinson
in English
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The Pumpkin Eater
1962-01-01, Hutchinson, PENGUIN BOOKS
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Pumpkin Eater
Jun 22, 1962, Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
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Cover of: The pumpkin eater
The pumpkin eater
1962, Hutchinson
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater
1962, Hutchinson
Hardcover in English
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The pumpkin eater
1962, McGraw-Hill
in English
Cover of: The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater
1962, Hutchinson
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published, London:Hutchinson, 1962.

Published in
Harmondsworth
Series
Penguin books

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18238962M
Internet Archive
pumpkineater0000pene_v1m5

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