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A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife"
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife"
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife"
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A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife"

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A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535818827
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife"

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    A Study Guide for Kay Boyle's "Astronomer's Wife" - Gale

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    Astronomer's Wife

    Kay Boyle

    1936

    Introduction

    Kay Boyle’s story Astronomer’s Wife is a brief exploration of a woman’s dissatisfaction with her husband and her life. The 1936 collection in which the story appeared, The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories, was hailed almost unanimously by critics as a masterpiece and as evidence of an artist at the height of her powers, and the story demonstrates Boyle’s maturity and subtlety as a writer. The protagonist, identified only as Mrs. Ames, is transformed in a small but profound way by her encounter with the plumber who comes to fix her house’s clogged drain. The ordinariness and unremarkable nature of the action, and its deep emotional resonance, have deep similarities to the Joycean epiphany form of fiction while being at the same time striking in their

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