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Mortimer, Penelope
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Fiction
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2011
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New York Review of Books
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English
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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapistβs couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is