The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. Hers is a voice that distils a woman''s determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart''s hand is wrought into something magnificent.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Smart
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780008155742
• ISBN: 978-0-00-815574-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary