09689cam a2200505 4500 234075493 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780812997545 0812997549 B00MKZE2QQ Amazon 89d12208-58ec-4587-b79a-38c906f59b0a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1967333 OverDrive (Product ID) 247141 1967333 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Essbaum, Jill Alexander. Hausfrau [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1980kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:"In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary."--Time "A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.". HTML:O: The Oprah Magazine. "Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman's desperate soul.". HTML:People. "Elegant, erotic . . . There is much to admire in [Jill Alexander] Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.". HTML:Chicago Tribune. HTML:"For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring."--NPR's Weekend Edition "In Jill Alexander Essbaum's promising novel, we meet Anna Benz, an increasingly desperate American housewife and mother of three in her late thirties, positively brimming with ennui. . . . We're in literary territory as familiar as Anna's name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.". HTML:San Francisco Chronicle. "This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate--as sexy as it is sad. . . . Though Anna, as heroine, has literary precedent, Essbaum has gracefully combined the mundane of the familial, graphic sex scenes, linguistics lessons and precise passages of psychological expertise into something utterly original. Essbaum has written one of the smartest novels in recent memory.". HTML:The Dallas Morning News. "Jill Alexander Essbaum's poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.". HTML:Us Weekly. HTML:"A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary and a poet's fascination with language. . . . The beauty of Hausfrau, however, is the freshness it brings to a trope seemingly beaten into the ground. . . . In Anna, we don't see a sinfully passionate naif throwing her life away on a doomed quest for love, à la Bovary or Karenina. Such a parallel hardly seems possible in these liberal modern times when divorce is common and premarital sex expected. But the numbed, uncertain person at the heart of Hausfrau is uniquely compelling."--The Huffington Post "[Essbaum's] first foray into fiction has already drawn references to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. . . . But the self-alienation of the American wife of a Swiss banker, resulting in Jungian analysis and reckless serial adultery, feels more contemporary, subjective, and just plain funny than classical bourgeois ennui. Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York "Hausfrau, a psychological trip about 'a good wife, mostly' who enters into a series of messy affairs and impulsive adventures, is brain-surgically constructed to fascinate you, entertain you, and then make you question what a life lived with meaning looks like--all with a sense of poetic discipline and introspection.". HTML:Los Angeles Magazine. HTML:"Over a century after the publication of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, poet Essbaum proves in her debut novel that there is still plenty of psychic territory to cover in the story of 'a good wife, mostly.' . . . The realism of Anna's dilemmas and the precise construction of the novel are marvels of the form. . . . This novel is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending, and Anna is likely to provoke strong feelings in readers well after the final page.". HTML:Publishers Weekly (starred review.) "[Anna's] story will fascinate and thrill the most modern readers, even if you don't agree with her decisions.". HTML:Bustle. HTML:"Hausfrau packs romance, sex, and infidelity into the story about a woman searching for meaning in her life.". HTML:PopSugar. "In Anna Benz, Essbaum has created a genuine, complex woman whose journey--no matter how dark it may be--reveals truths as only great literature can. She may have her r. HTML:Shelf Awareness. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER <ul> <li>"In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary."--Time "A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman's desperate soul."--People Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau "Elegant, erotic . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present."--Chicago Tribune "For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring."--NPR's Weekend Edition "We're in literary territory as familiar as Anna's name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight."--San Francisco Chronicle "This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory."--The Dallas Morning News "Essbaum's poignant, shocking debut novel rivets."--Us Weekly "A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary."--The Huffington Post "Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York "[Hausfrau] is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the Hardcover edition.</li> </ul>. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:22. http://lonestardigitalibrary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=89d12208-58ec-4587-b79a-38c906f59b0a https://samples.overdrive.com/hausfrau-89d122?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/hausfrau-89d122?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/hausfrau-89d122?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXKYP