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In The Wives of Bath, Susan Swan penetrates the world of a girls' boarding school and tells a story - at once shocking and wickedly funny - that encompasses rebellion and murder, and stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humour of female adolescence and sexual coming-of-age.
It is 1963. Mary Bradford (a.k.a. Mouse) is thirteen when she is shipped off to Bath Ladies College. Mouse, motherless, a hunchback, enters the school feeling very much on its margins, determined never to fit in with the "normal" girls, never to succumb to the expectations of the elder role models: the spinster teachers, the elegant mothers of her schoolmates. She chooses her allies carefully: her hump, whom she calls Alice, and john F. Kennedy, to whom she writes long letters asking and giving advice.
But the school itself is stranger than Mouse ever could have imagined. A secret underworld of tunnels beneath the buildings, stolen love letters, King Kong worship, and ghostlike apparitions - a world where young girls sometimes refuse to be simply "good little girls" - all lead Mouse into experiences, both terrifying and exciting, of an alternate reality for her sex. What begins as experimentation spins out of control, ending in a death that only Mouse can fully comprehend.
Susan Swan has created in Mouse Bradford - wise, witty and vulnerable - an unforgettable heroine. The Wives of Bath is a novel that both moves the heart an astonishes the imagination.
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"Exhilarating...clarifying, double-edged pleasure...Susan Swan captures the secret, honest voices that haunt the inner ear of a certain class of women..." --Anne Collins, Saturday Night Magazine
"The wickedest, funniest girls' school story I've read since The Terror of St. Trinians." --Daniel Richler
"The Wives of Bath is one of the most powerful depictions of adolescent female sexuality that I have ever come across. Such audacious honesty of perception and spirit is achieved only by writers of the highest order." --Barbara Gowdy
About the Author
Susan Swan is a professor of humanities at York University in Toronto. Her previous novels include The Biggest Modern Woman in the World (which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award), The Last of the Golden Girls, and Unfit for Paradise.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679419195
- ISBN 13 9780679419198
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages237
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