The long, long afternoon / Inga Vesper.
Publication details: London : Manilla Press, 2021.Description: 402 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781838772277
- 1838772278
- 1900-1999
- Racism -- Fiction
- Women detectives -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Communities -- United States -- Fiction
- Women detectives -- California -- Fiction
- Women detectives
- Secrecy
- Nineteen fifties
- Missing persons
- Families
- Communities
- Entitlement attitudes -- Fiction
- Sex role -- Fiction
- Police -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- California
- California -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- United States
- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | VES | Issued | 08/02/2024 | 063583 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes reading group questions.
"The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets."--on cover.
Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . . It's the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified toddlers and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor . . . A beguiling, deeply atmospheric debut novel from the cracked heart of the American Dream, The Long, Long Afternoon is at once a page-turning mystery and an intoxicating vision of the ways in which women everywhere are diminished, silenced and ultimately under-estimated.