The Good Husband | Social Concerns
As The Good Husband opens, Magda Danvers has just learned that her ovarian cancer is incurable. Magda, a brilliant scholar who has never lived up to her early promise, resolves to discover the meaning of her own death. The novel follows her last months in considerable detail as she struggles to pass this "Final Examination" well, and on her own terms.
Of course death is a perennial concern of humankind. The nineteenth-century novel tended to sentimentalize and domesticate death. Twentieth-century fiction, in large part, has shared our culture's refusal to give it sustained...
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