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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
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Hillary Huber
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Hilma Wolitzer
An NPR Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year * Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize
The "often hilarious and always compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), now with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer—now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game—has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height.” (Washington Post) These collected short stories—most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present—are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today.
In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer’s stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now—reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.©2021 Hilma Wolitzer (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Wolitzer has a gentle touch for conveying the nuances and humor to be found in small moments of intrigue... Intrigue may lead a story, but for Wolitzer the daily rituals of family always carry it.
Like its author, the stories in Today A Woman Went Mad shine as brightly, cut as deeply and entertain as deliciously as if they’d been written today.
[Wolitzer has] demonstrated literature's power to both move and console.
A timeless examination of [...] the staying power of love.
Often hilarious and always compassionate.
Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is incredible, so languid and horny, kind of retro and modern at the same time.
What an astonishing amount of family love, confusion and sadness Hilma Wolitzer fits into the short stories in Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket . . . The book comes to a fiercely affecting conclusion in ‘The Great Escape,’ written last year, in which Paulette and Howard, nearing their 90s, face a frightening new challenge: the coronavirus pandemic. Somehow, this heartbreaking story is infused with the same candor and comedy as those written in the 1960s. It’s an unforgettable ending to a wonderful collection.
[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules.
Hilma Wolitzer's collection brims with humor, insight and sorrow...beautiful indeed, this is a stunning and memorable collection.
Thirteen timeless stories of what goes on between men and women, grounded in an optimism that is no stranger to sorrow. . . . Completing the trajectory of her early triumphs with a pandemic masterpiece, Wolitzer takes our breath away.
Who writes more tellingly, more tenderly about the human connection than Hilma Wolitzer? About the way things work in a marriage, about the small details of daily life that bind you together or fling you apart?
[A] sterling and ambushing retrospective collection. . . . [Wolitzer is] an artist with a deceptively light touch, creating stories of psychological and social incisiveness that are at once poised and lacerating. She deftly reveals how women are harshly judged and how women judge, how children are trapped in their parents' snares and snarls and how they escape. Delectably funny and radically insightful . . . . [Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is] a striking and enlightening gathering of polestar short stories.
[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure.
Superb . . . nearly every story starts with a punchy, lucid opening that sneaks up on you like the jab of a boxer barely out of his corner.
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