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:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Jane Gray is a poet, a wife, and a mother — isolated, fragile, and on the verge of unraveling — until an all-consuming love affair with her cousin's husband ignites a passion she is wholly unprepared to survive. Set in the intimate, rain-grey landscapes of 1960s England, Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall chronicles a woman's desperate surrender to romantic obsession, told through a brilliant dual narrative in which Jane simultaneously recounts and deconstructs her own story, oscillating between first and third person as if unable to fully claim the desire she feels. Drabble, one of the foremost voices of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, constructs a psychologically rich portrait of womanhood caught between social convention and authentic selfhood, between the roles assigned to women and the hungers they are denied. The Waterfall stands as a landmark of feminist literary consciousness — not through polemic, but through the raw, unsettling honesty of a narrator who questions her own reliability at every turn. Is Jane a romantic heroine, a self-deceiver, or something far more complicated? The answer, like the waterfall itself, keeps rushing forward, never quite resolving.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Jane Gray is a poet, a wife, and a mother — isolated, fragile, and on the verge of unraveling — until an all-consuming love affair with her cousin's husband ignites a passion she is wholly unprepared to survive. Set in the intimate, rain-grey landscapes of 1960s England, Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall chronicles a woman's desperate surrender to romantic obsession, told through a brilliant dual narrative in which Jane simultaneously recounts and deconstructs her own story, oscillating between first and third person as if unable to fully claim the desire she feels. Drabble, one of the foremost voices of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, constructs a psychologically rich portrait of womanhood caught between social convention and authentic selfhood, between the roles assigned to women and the hungers they are denied. The Waterfall stands as a landmark of feminist literary consciousness — not through polemic, but through the raw, unsettling honesty of a narrator who questions her own reliability at every turn. Is Jane a romantic heroine, a self-deceiver, or something far more complicated? The answer, like the waterfall itself, keeps rushing forward, never quite resolving.