Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
by Amy Witting
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Pub Date Oct 13 2015 | Archive Date Sep 20 2015
Text Publishing | Text Classics
Description
‘Quietly brilliant…Witting's characterizations are staggeringly sharp—it is hard to imagine a novel more keenly observed—simultaneously heartbreaking and (subtly) hilarious...A compassionate masterpiece.’—Kirkus (starred review)
Isobel Callaghan is struggling to survive as a writer. She is isolated, poor and hungry. Leaving her boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in the hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a sanatorium. There, among the motley patients, and with the aid of great works of literature, she confronts the horrors of her past. But can she find a way to face the future? Confronting and compassionate, profound and funny, the second Isobel novel confirmed Amy Witting as one of the finest Australian writers of her time.
Advance Praise
Winner, Age Book of the Year 1990
The brilliant sequel to I For Isobel.
‘[Witting] lays bare with surgical precision the dynamics of families, sibling, students in coffee shops, office coteries. One sometimes feels positively winded with unsettling insights. There is something relentless, almost unnerving in her anatomising of foibles, fears obsessions, private shame, the nature of loneliness, the nature of panic.'—Janette Turner Hospital
‘Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing.'—New Yorker
‘Sparkling prose and extraordinary ability to enter the minds of a wide variety of characters.'—A Reader's Guide to Australian Fiction
‘Her reflections on human nature are eloquently drawn, intimate, compassionate and witty.’—Australian
The brilliant sequel to I For Isobel.
‘[Witting] lays bare with surgical precision the dynamics of families, sibling, students in coffee shops, office coteries. One sometimes feels positively winded with unsettling insights. There is something relentless, almost unnerving in her anatomising of foibles, fears obsessions, private shame, the nature of loneliness, the nature of panic.'—Janette Turner Hospital
‘Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing.'—New Yorker
‘Sparkling prose and extraordinary ability to enter the minds of a wide variety of characters.'—A Reader's Guide to Australian Fiction
‘Her reflections on human nature are eloquently drawn, intimate, compassionate and witty.’—Australian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Mass Market Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781922182715 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
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