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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Holdstock, Pauline, 1948-     Subjects     Midlife crisis -- Fiction.     Marital quality -- Fiction.     Mothers -- Fiction.     Voyages and travels -- Fiction.     Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Holdstock, Pauline, 1948-       by title:      Confessions with Kei...       by call number:      FICTION HOL     Search the Web     Holdstock, Pauline, 1948-     Midlife crisis -- Fiction.     Marital quality -- Fiction.     Mothers -- Fiction.     Voyages and travels -- Fiction.     Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Confessions with Keith : extracts from the journals of Vita Glass / Pauline Holdstock. by Holdstock, Pauline, 1948- Biblioasis, 2022. Call #: FICTION HOL Subjects Midlife crisis -- Fiction.   Marital quality -- Fiction.   Mothers -- Fiction.   Voyages and travels -- Fiction.   Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781771964975 (trade pbk.) Description:  251 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "A John Metcalf Book" Summary:  An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis--her husband's and her own. Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesn't notice that her house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Meanwhile, Vita's eldest son is embarking on his professional career as a teenaged stoner, her eldest daughter can't be seen in public with her lest she succumb to mortal embarrassment, her younger son's gerbils won't stop having babies, and the baby of the family suffers debilitating grief over certain memories, including the thought of the Cats soundtrack and that one time she stepped on a hornet's nest. Plus the family dog is a Greek chorus of puke. Vita can barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off. Our heroine's only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewise--in the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the p. of Vita's journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves. Genre:  Humorous fiction. Diary fiction Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOL Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOL Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOL Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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