The World's Wife
by Carol Ann Duffy
2020-11-20 10:55:25
Filled with Duffy''s characteristic wit, this unique collection is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology."The World''s Wife is a joyous exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and history." -The GuardianBehi...
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Filled with Duffy''s characteristic wit, this unique collection is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology."The World''s Wife is a joyous exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and history." -The GuardianBehind every famous man is a great woman. From the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, the adoring Queen Kong, to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart''s shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World''s Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.
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