The Doctor's Wife (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Moore
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Wives, France or French people, Doctors, Rape, Adultery, Punishment
- Locales: France, London, England, Ireland
The temptation is powerful to compare The Doctor's Wife to Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857): The protagonists of both novels are married to provincial doctors, have convulsively passionate affairs with younger lovers, and engage in the subterfuges and stratagems that adulterous relationships necessitate. Yet the differences between the heroines are important: Emma Bovary was bored and unhappy in her incompatible marriage long before she encountered Rodolphe and Léon; Moore's Sheila is seemingly satisfied to be married to Dr. Kevin Redden and looks forward to a second...
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