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The Pure Gold Baby Hardcover - 2013
by Margaret Drabble
The first new novel in five years from "one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker)
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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.
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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- Title The Pure Gold Baby
- Author Margaret Drabble
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Advance Reader's
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2013-10-01
- ISBN 9780544158900 / 0544158903
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.35 x 1.03 in (23.44 x 16.13 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, London (England)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013021736
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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