About this title: VERY MUCH A CONTRAST TO MUKHERJEE'S FIRST NOVEL, HER SECOND DESCRIBES DIMPLE DASGUPTA'S ATTEMPTS TO COPE WITH HER LIFE IN AMERICA. HER MARRIAGE ARRANGED TO A RESPECTABLE ENGINEER, DIMPLE IMMIGRATES TO THE U.S., BUT CANNOT ADJUST TO THE FOREIGN AND VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT OF NEW YORK CITY. MORE AND MORE SHE RETREATS FROM REALITY, LIVING IN HER OWN TELEVISION-INDUCED FANTASY WORLD UNTIL SHE FINALLY FINDS EXPRESSION FOR HER FRUSTRATION IN A CHILLING ACT OF SELF-ASSERTION.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Good. Ex-library! A FEW SMALL STAINS. Protective mylar covering. Withdrawn stamped in book front and back. Card holder may or may not be present. If card holder is removed it will generally leave glue stains and damage the back cover page. The dust jacket may also leave some glue stains if it is loose from the cover. No markings noted in text. Good: Copy has been read, but remains in good condition. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. COCKED SPINE. COVERS SHOW VERY HEAVY WEAR. Library stamps and stickers. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No markings, Fine in unclipped VG+ Dj with 1/2" closed tear to the bottom edge of front panel and a very light bit of rubbing to the black portions ofthe Dj. Dj is in mylar sleeve. Ochre coloured cloth, 213pp. This is the author's second novel about a young Indian wife's struggle to achieve an identity as a woman and to cope with new new life in the United States. (1.8 FO 12/6. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. EAN: 9780395204399. 213 pp. First American edition of the author's second published work. The book itself is flawless. Clean, straight and tight. Dust Jacket has rub to the spine ends and fore-edge and one tiny closed tear. It is now beautified and protected in a New Mylar Cover. Very much a contrast to Mukherjee's first novel, her second describes Dimple Dasgupta's attempts to cope with her life in America. Her marriage arranged to a respectable engineer, ... read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Fine in Near FIne jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A great copy of this collectible book. Interior clean and bright with no markings. Jacket has some rubbing, edgewear and two very minor tears to jacket edges. Jacket is not sunned and is not price clipped. The second novel from the author of Holder of the World and The Tree Bride. A novel exploring the transformation of a young immigrant bride to this country. A masterpiece. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. This novel has a photo illustrated dj with white spine lettering. Some dj wear, encased in mylar; book itself is clean, tight and unmarked. Mukherjee's novel describes a young Indian woman's struggle to adapt to marriage and life in the United States. 213 pages; approx. 5"x8". read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: 0395204399. Very Good in Good price clipped dust jacket. Several chips and tears, all edges of jacket taped. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover in Dust Jacket
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395204399ISBN:0395204399
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed by Author First Printing of the First Edition. Signed in Hindi by Bharati Mukherjee. Book in fine condition; and in a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear, and a short closed tear on bottom back cover. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY. 1975
Date Published: 1975
Description: Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author(s) SIGNED by Bharati Mukherjee on the title page. Fine in aclose to fine dj. (A few tiny edge nicks & traces of light shelfwear at corners on dj. ) Author's SECOND novel. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140093001ISBN:0140093001
Description: Acceptable. White wraps, orange spine with black and white letters. Creased spine, scuffed edges of wraps. Highlighting throughout text. read more
"p. 43 "She did not want to carry any relics from her old life; given another chance she could be a more exciting person, take evening classes perhaps, become a librarian. She had heard that many Indian wives in the States became librarians."
Stories of women's lives have been among my favorite reads. This powerful story is of a woman sent off to a life she did not want with a man she did not want to a country she did not want. Day after day of sitting in an apartment with nothing to do and nowhere to go, contemplating nine ways of killing herself. A dark story that left me feeling sad for women without choices.
The ending? Was it real or was it fantasy? Dimple seemed lost and confused about what was real and what was not real. I was left unsure about the ending."
""Wife" is about the struggle of a young Bengali woman, Dimple Basu, first in adjusting to her arranged marriage and then to leaving her home in Calcutta for New York City. One must keep in mind that the novel was written in the 1970s, thus the references to consciousness raising groups, the debate about women working outside the home, and the agonizing over women wearing pants! The main character, as a housewife, doesn't have a lot to do and is essentially lazy, but she gains our sympathy nonetheless."
"i met Bharati Mukherjee once at a reading she gave in berkeley, and she signed this copy for me. though lesser read, this is my favorite book of hers. in it there is the immigrant fear of the impatience/intolerance of the natives, but there is also, and more meaningful to me when i read it, the wife's fear of the impatience/intolerance of her husband. this book has the most stunning finale i have ever encountered...blew the breath right outta me."
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