Zatímco autorovy slavné hororové povídky (shrnuté např. ve výboru Líbej mě, líbej) charakterizuje jedovatá bizarnost, čtyři povídky ze sbírky Milostné rošády jsou precizně komponované originální anekdoty s překvapivou, až šokující pointou – povídky o „bezbolestné bolesti“, v různých hávech obměňujíc
The Millstone
✍ Scribed by Margaret Drabble
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhco.com);Harcourt Brace
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Edition
- 1st Harvest ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0156006197
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is naive and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying."--Back cover.
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