Basic black with pearls
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Basic black with pearls
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The work Basic black with pearls represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Mateo County Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Basic black with pearls
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Weinzweig ; afterword by Sarah Weinman
- Subject
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- Psychological fiction
- FICTION -- Thrillers
- FICTION -- Contemporary Women
- FICTION -- Psychological
- Jews -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women
- Jews
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Self-perception
- Ontario -- Toronto
- FICTION / Thrillers / General
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
- Feminist fiction
- FICTION / Women
- Fiction
- Feminist fiction
- Self-perception -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley Kaszenbowski, nee Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls. She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton's or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with "The Agency," a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the National Geographic. Her search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and "the other woman," as she trades in her basic black for another chance. In Basic Black with Pearls, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.912
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.W4
- LC item number
- B3 2018
- Literary form
- novels
- Series statement
- NYRB classics
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofafterword
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