01654nam a2200229 i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003800062040002500100082001500125100003000140245004600170264003200216300002300248336002100271337002500292338002300317520101200340650003001352650002001382650002201402OSt20230905164319.0230905s2022    enk    g      000 f eng d  a9780008421755cRM59.95qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a823.921 aFeito, Virginia,eauthor.10aMrs. March : bA Novel /cVirginia Feito  1aLondon :b4th Estate,c2022  a288 pages ;c20 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aA twenty-first-century Highsmith, Virginia Feito conjures the unforgettable Mrs. March, an Upper East Side housewife whose life is shattered by her husband's latest novel. In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and wickedly dark humor. George March's latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March, his doting wife. But one morning, the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that his protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself: "?'But... -isn't she...' Mrs. March leaned in and in almost a whisper said, 'a whore?'?" Clutching her ostrich-leather pocketbook, she flees, that one casual remark destroying her belief that she knew everything about her husband-as well as herself. Suddenly, Mrs. March is hurled into a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis, one that begins merely within the pages of a book but may uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past10aAuthors' spousesvFiction20aGossipvFiction20aMarriagevFiction