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Can I read Daddy's Gone A-Hunting on EtoBox?
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Daddy's Gone A-Hunting about?
A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel" (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is "paralysed by triviality," measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties—routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.First published in 1958, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting shocked critics with its "feminine rage" (New York Times). It captures the suffocation of a repressive marriage and the desperate longing for connection between a mother and daughter who must join forces in a man's world.
Who reads Daddy's Gone A-Hunting?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Penelope Mortimer
- Publisher
- McNally Editions
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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