Necessary Objects (SIGNED)

Gould, Lois

ISBN 10: 0394468473 / ISBN 13: 9780394468471

Published by Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1972

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by author on front end page. DJ rubbed with tape reinforcement on spine top. Foxing to page edges. $6.95 price present on DJ flap.

Seller Inventory # 007983

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Necessary Objects (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394468473
• ISBN 13: 9780394468471
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Indefatigable devourers of clothes, jewelry, sex, careers, husbands and sons, four sisters live Lowen swirling fatuous adventures of all women-rich and unsatisfied. The four daughters of Amos Lowen, once a peddler of rags in the ghetto jew, now owner of a New York department store chain, although they have passed the thirty and you are left behind many marriages are still known as the girls Lowen . Allison, the eldest, when it became too big to play with the dollhouse, she was appointed by President Dad Lowen Lowen department stores. Divorced, remarried after anniverary with a kind of hunter weddings and gifts with which it will never go to bed. Ever, the second, he prefers to play the queen constantly using your body to continue to play its part. Celine, the third sister, once played at the cinema. She escaped with a Hollywood director, Dad did come home. Now simply go shopping. Buy whatever makes her feel a diva. Elly, the youngest of the sisters Lowen, weighs forty-three pounds, lives of sliced ​​tomatoes and champagne, her days are populated by day, to be guilty fantasies for girls once loved and, at night, nightmares for their body hates. Not to be outdone their children: the son of Elly fifteen posing as a brilliant musician and homosexual, Cathy, the daughter of eighteen years who never has experienced a divorce and a suicide attempt, Jill, the fourteen year old daughter Allison, was thoroughly frightened by the idea of becoming frigid >> << that his behavior reaches the excesses of unleashed sexuality << >>. A world populated by so avid consumers of objects, objects of consumption themselves, that Gould explores with ruthless violence.