The Waterfall
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Jane Gray is a poet adrift in the wreckage of her marriage, isolated in a cold London flat where she has just given birth, when her cousin's husband, James, arrives and ignites a consuming, irrational passion that threatens to upend everything she knows. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall (1969) chronicles this affair with a fierce, almost clinical honesty, alternating between first- and third-person narration as Jane simultaneously lives her story and interrogates her own telling of it — questioning whether love is liberation or self-destruction. Drabble writes with a razor-sharp intelligence about the contradictions of womanhood in the late 1960s: the tension between female desire and social expectation, between romantic surrender and intellectual autonomy. The novel's fractured, self-aware structure is not merely a stylistic flourish but a profound argument about the stories women tell themselves to survive. For readers who believe they understand the boundaries between passion and obsession, The Waterfall will quietly, devastatingly prove them wrong.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Jane Gray is a poet adrift in the wreckage of her marriage, isolated in a cold London flat where she has just given birth, when her cousin's husband, James, arrives and ignites a consuming, irrational passion that threatens to upend everything she knows. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall (1969) chronicles this affair with a fierce, almost clinical honesty, alternating between first- and third-person narration as Jane simultaneously lives her story and interrogates her own telling of it — questioning whether love is liberation or self-destruction. Drabble writes with a razor-sharp intelligence about the contradictions of womanhood in the late 1960s: the tension between female desire and social expectation, between romantic surrender and intellectual autonomy. The novel's fractured, self-aware structure is not merely a stylistic flourish but a profound argument about the stories women tell themselves to survive. For readers who believe they understand the boundaries between passion and obsession, The Waterfall will quietly, devastatingly prove them wrong.