Ebook {Epub PDF} Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

“The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife.”—Harper’s Bazaar (U.K.)/5(). The ghost of Anna Karenina haunts the poet Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut, Hausfrau, about an American in Zürich with the perfect husband, perfect sons and perfect home; but she is far from the perfect wife. The Bookseller (U.K.). (Hausfrau) Few poets' roots go deeper than the Romantics; Jill Alexander Essbaum's reach all the way to the Elizabethans. In her Harlot one hears Herbert and Wyatt and Donne, their parallax view of religion as sex and sex as religion, their delight in sin, their smirking .

The exceptional debut novel from prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. "Haunting Beautifully written, the ennui of its Anna Karenina-esque heroine's deceptively perfect life as a Swiss housewife seeps from every page" Best Books of , Harper's Bazaar Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young. Hausfrau haus·frau \haus-frau\ n 1: Origin: German. Housewife, homemaker. 2: A married woman. 3: A novel by Jill Alexander Essbaum. Anna was a good wife, mostly. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Hausfrau Jill Alexander Essbaum. Random, $26 (p) ISBN ARTICLES. First Fiction Spring Jill Alexander Essbaum: Exploring the Dilemma of Domesticity; Buy this book.

Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of Hausfrau ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), Harlot ( avg rating, 68 ratings, “Hausfrau” is a novel of abiding, almost religious unhappiness. There is little air in Anna’s sadness, precious little wit or grit or grace. Hausfrau is Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel. She has published several poetry collections, including Heaven, which won the Bakeless Poetry Prize, and has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry and The Best American Erotic Poems: From to the Present.