Kaufman, Sue (Vol. 3) | Kaufman, Sue 1926–
Kaufman, Sue 1926–
An American novelist, Ms. Kaufman is best known for The Diary of a Mad Housewife. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
The familiar genre of [Falling Bodies]: Every Nacht is Walpurgisnacht in the East Sixties. Its equally familiar subgenre is Highly Intelligent Young Upper Middle-Class Married Woman With a Screw Loose Wobbles About Manhattan In State of Distraction, Nervously Hailing Taxicabs. If that seems to cut sub-genres rather fine, novels exactly fitting the description have been appearing every six weeks or so for several years now. In fact, the Nervously Hailing Taxicabs category is as easily recognizable as that now defunct tribe of novel, popular in the '50s, in whiih young men in gray flannel suits brooded about whether the ad biz was worth it.
The narrator of Falling Bodies is Emma Sohier, once a brilliant student of literature at Radcliffe, now alas,...
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