Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment experienced before by only 52 men and six women in the 1,100-year history of England's throne had come to the fresh-faced yet stately young mistress of Buckingham Palace. In storybook raiment, with a storybook prince by her side, she stepped down to the courtyard and entered a coach of scarlet and gold...
After a long, tinhorn odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...
...English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired Tom begins to feel that the bus is his only real home...
...start at the age of six, he decides in retrospect, when his own father ditched Tom's mother for a mistress. By his 20s, Tom is a self-assured young bachelor-businessman whose only known vice is fondling his secretary. Outside office hours, however, he has a mania for playing the horses, and it is not long before Tom taps the company till. He skips town one jump ahead...
Cesare Pavese is the latest of the younger Italian novelists to be published in the U.S.-and the latest to be found looking at life in despair. In the last 40 pages of his novel, a Piedmontese peasant tramples his mistress and mother-in-law to death, sets fire to his hut, and hangs himself. An unmarried girl becomes pregnant, has an abortion and dies. Her half-sister turns prostitute and plays informer to both the Fascists and the partisans; she winds up in front of a machine gun and her body is burned in a brush pile...