What did Mrs Midas think? Or Queen Kong? Read all about it in Carol Ann Duffy's hugely successful, tender and entertaining collection. "... a joyous, exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and history: wives such as Mrs Pilate, Mrs Aesop, Mrs Darwin, Mrs Faust, Frau Freud, Mr
The World's Wife
β Scribed by Carol Ann Duffy
- Book ID
- 100560494
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 144727525X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
*Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.
The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.*
Behind every famous man is a great womanand from the quick-tongued Mrs. Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection. Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, this is Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.
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