August is a Wicked Month

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It left me with very mixed feelings about Ellen, whilst she was in France I wanted to go up on her, shake by the shoulders and tell her not to be so stupid but whilst in the UK I wanted to give her a big hug. Some readers might feel a sense of release in the honesty of this book; others might resent the needle pressed against the balloon.

Lose yourself in the legendary Edna O'Brien's simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera .Her husband and son would not be back for a week or more and she would lie in a strange new place and let strange new things happen to her. Although this book is about a lonely 28-y/o housewife, Ellen, she is not really your sex-starved character who sleeps with men from one bed to another. In France she flirts with almost every male she sees, including the man sitting beside her on the plane, but her her choices are poor and nothing works out as she would. When the dad takes the boy for a week long summer camping trip, Ellen decides to go on holiday herself.

Irish, cottage, poor, typical, pink cheeks, came to be a nurse in London, loved by all the patients, loved being loved, ran from the operating theatre because one of those patients who had a cancer, was just opened and closed again, met a man who liked the nursemaid in me, married him in a registry office, threw away the faith, one son soon after.There are at least two sentences like this that refers to the bed's performance of the man as being wicked. Banned in several countries on first publication, Edna O’Brien’s August is a Wicked Month is a shimmering, sensual tale of a woman rediscovering herself – and it feels just as glorious, radical, and escapist as today. Notable works also include August Is a Wicked Month (1965), A Pagan Place (1970), Lantern Slides (1990), and The Light of Evening (2006). I'm pretty sure that Miss O'Brien considered that this was a novel written for women, not gals and one can only speculate with lines like that, that this is a close as Gavin has ever gotten to being inside a woman, er inside the skin of a woman.

Bored London house wife Ellen, 28 years old, has divorced her husband and lives in London with her eight-year-old son. You feel like you are watching a girlfriend do all sorts of things that you know are bad for her, and you just want her say please stop doing this to yourself, but you also know she won't listen.Nevertheless, there is a new level of ennui and resignation, of displacement and alienation that in some ways reminded me of—and anticipates—Joan Didion's early fiction: Play It as It Lays and Book of Common Prayer. A few plot points are a bit over the top but for all that it’s still a realistic portrayal of a woman in Ellen’s predicament and at her time in life. It’s also a fascinating insight into a woman’s interior life, her sexual desires and her hunger to live life to the fullest. I don’t really have the time to collect the William Trevor reviews in one spot, as I had originally planned, and not sure whether Cathy is doing it. By the time I'd finished this I was feeling so depressed I headed off into the kitchen to hide all the sharp implements and cracked open another bottle of wine.