Kaufman, Sue (Vol. 8) | Kaufman, Sue 1926–
Kaufman, Sue 1926–
An American novelist and short story writer, Kaufman writes of the plight of the American housewife in a male-oriented society. Her best known novel is The Diary of a Mad Housewife. (See also CLC, Vol. 3, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Sue Kaufman's Falling Bodies … reminds you of how much a novelist's work can have in common with a bricklayer's: the awful distance between the stuff in the hands—bricks, mortar, dialogue, detail—and the idea of the edifice. Miss Kaufman works hard to render upper-middle-class Manhattan life: lists and letters, private school scenes, mums at the playground, endless conversation in dialect from a Colombian maid. And she succeeds. By a third of the way through I'm there, but unsure why I'm there. Her gift is for comedy, with a special endowment for the description of pompous and somewhat deranged husbands (as in Diary of a Mad...
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