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Women's Letters from the End of the Affair
Ballantine Books
January 2004
On Sale: December 30, 2003
448 pages
ISBN: 034546544X
EAN: 9780345465443
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It’s as old as time: the breakup letter. The kiss-off. The
Dear John. The big adios. Simple in its premise, stunningly
perfect in its effect. From Anne Boleyn to Sex and the
City writer/producer Cindy Chupack, from women both
well-known and unknown, imaginary and real, the letters here
span the centuries and the emotions—providing a stirring,
utterly gratifying glimpse at the power, wit, and fury of a
woman’s voice. In a never-before-published letter, Anaïs Nin
gives her lover, C. L. Baldwin, a piece of her mind.
Charlotte Brontë, in formal fashion, refuses the marriage
proposal of Henry Nussey. In a previously unpublished
letter, Sylvia Plath writes to her childhood friend and
brief lover, Phillip McCurdy, expressing her wish to
maintain a platonic relationship. And “Susie Q.” lets
“Johnny Smack-O” know that she’s onto his
philandering.
The brilliance of the mad missives,
caustic communiqués, downhearted dispatches, sweet
send-offs, and every other sort of good-bye that fills these
pages will surely resonate with anyone who has ever loved,
lost, left, languished, or laughed a hearty last laugh.
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