Burning Bridges - Softcover

Miller, Inette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553279769 ISBN 13: 9780553279764

Publisher: Bantam, 1989

Synopsis

At 39 Inette Millar had been the envy of all her friends. She had been married for 16 years to a loving husband, had 2 wonderful sons and lived in a dream farmhouse. At 40 Inette had walked out on all of this, had an affair, split up with her lover and was living alone in a tiny flat - ostracized from family and friends. This is an honest account of a woman's journey of self-discovery. It is a story of anger, of exhilaration, of guilt and despair. It is also an account of how the middle years can be a period of challenge and immense personal growth.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

In a sometimes tediously detailed diary of a love affair that ruined her marriage of 16 years, Miller, a North Carolina journalist, writes that although she loved her husband, she was irresistibly driven to experience once more a consuming passion, perhaps to deny the mid-life biological imperative. Her partner's love, she contends, offered a means of self-exploration; he too was married. Revelation of the affair caused the expected havoc, pain, guilt and remorse on both sides, along with occasional violence, disruption of their children's lives and ostracism by family and friends. These relationships were temporarily replaced by brief, intense friendships formed in a mental hospital from which the author emerged determined to rebuild her self-esteem and create a new, independent life in a new locality. First serial to New Woman; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Miller's diary illustrates graphically Terry Arendell's contention in Mothers and Divorce (LJ 12/1/86) that women frequently do not anticipate the problems that are common in divorce. Miller initiates an affair believing that it can be temporary and have no effect on her marriage. She is looking for excitement and self-affirmation. What follows is a wrenching day-by-day exploration of the dissolution of a human relationship. Particularly painful is her seeming disregard for the children. There is much here that illuminates contemporary attitudesthe emphasis on self, the difficulties when male and female agendas don't coincide. To Miller's credit, she ends the diary a more mature person. A unique contribution to divorce literature. Recommended. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. Hilma F. Cooper, Cheltenham Twp. Libs., Pa.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553279769
• ISBN 13: 9780553279764
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback