TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holmes,Anna
AU  - Prose,Francine
TI  - Hell hath no fury: : women's letters from the end of the affair
SN  - 9780345465443
U1  - 306.7 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books<
KW  - Social sciences › Social Sciences; › Culture and Institutions ›
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love
N2  - "It’s as old as time: the breakup letter. The kiss-off. The Dear John. The big adios. Simple in its premise, stunningly perfect in its effect. From Anne Boleyn to Sex and the City writer/producer Cindy Chupack, from women both well-known and unknown, imaginary and real, the letters here span the centuries and the emotions—providing a stirring, utterly gratifying glimpse at the power, wit, and fury of a woman’s voice. In a never-before-published letter, Anaïs Nin gives her lover, C. L. Baldwin, a piece of her mind. Charlotte Brontë, in formal fashion, refuses the marriage proposal of Henry Nussey. In a previously unpublished letter, Sylvia Plath writes to her childhood friend and brief lover, Phillip McCurdy, expressing her wish to maintain a platonic relationship. And “Susie Q.” lets “Johnny Smack-O” know that she’s onto his philandering.

The brilliance of the mad missives, caustic communiqués, downhearted dispatches, sweet send-offs, and every other sort of good-bye that fills these pages will surely resonate with anyone who has ever loved, lost, left, languished, or laughed a hearty last laugh."
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