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Title: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: New York Review of Books Classics
Author: COMYNS BARBARA
Illustrator: INTRO: EMILY GOULD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 10/11/2015
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
I told Helen my story and she went home and cried. So begins “Our Spoons Came from Woolworth s.” But Barbara Comyns s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naive when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn t make up for her husband s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.”
ISBN: 9781590178966
Weight: 227g
Dimension: 201mm X 127mm
Pages: 224