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Get a deeper understanding and appreciation of what you read with this examination of Elizabeth Jolley’s brilliantly comic and suspenseful novel, The Sugar Mother. This story follows a fussy middle-aged husband who is left alone by his younger wife, whose work takes her abroad for a year. What could go wrong? Australian author Helen Garner wrote of Jolley, “What makes us laugh in her books is the friction between humour and pathos. She is droll, sly, often delicate.” We’ll explore the novelist’s use of character, plot, narrative structure, dialogue, and point of view, enhancing our reading pleasure as our awareness of these elements grows.
Please read the first 40 pages and bring the Persea Books paperback to our first class.
Jennie Rathbun is a short-story writer and book reviewer who lives in Arlington. She has published a dozen stories in literary journals and holds a master’s in fine arts from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Jennie Henry Rathbun
