Kyle's review
Diary of a Mad Housewife
by Sue Kaufman
Kyle's review
Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman
Kyle's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction,
new-york,
psychology
recommended for: Maggie
Proto-feminist classic. Bettina Balser, née Munvies, is a middle class mother on Central Park West. Her husband is a lawyer and a hopeless social climber. He forces her to accompany him on an endless round of cocktail parties, art gallery openings and theatre events, in hopes of breaking into the next level of society. She is very depressed and just barely holding it together with booze, nembutal, and an extra-marital affair.
It's a very accurate portrayal of depression, but sometimes I had a hard time feeling as sorry for her as I might otherwise because they have a maid and people who come in to do the laundry and caterers and live on fucking Central Park West fer chrissakes. But all that obviously doesn't make debilitating depression much easier.
It's a very accurate portrayal of depression, but sometimes I had a hard time feeling as sorry for her as I might otherwise because they have a maid and people who come in to do the laundry and caterers and live on fucking Central Park West fer chrissakes. But all that obviously doesn't make debilitating depression much easier.
