On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three guests: Clara, Laura's timid daughter from a previous marriage; Carlos, Laura's flamboyant brother; and Peter, a melancholy editor whom Laura hasn't seen for over a year. But what begins as a bon voyage party soon becomes a bitter, claustrophobic clash of family resentment. From the hotel room to the tiny restaurant to which the five embark, Laura presides over the escalating innuendo and hostility with imperial cruelty, for she is hiding the knowledge that her mother, the family matriarch, has died of a heart attack that morning. Intense and unerringly observed, The Widow's Children is a tour de force from the incomparable Paula Fox.
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
Used availability for Paula Fox's The Widow's Children
Hardback Editions
1976 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
July 2008 : UK Paperback

Title: THE WIDOW'S CHILDREN
Author(s): Paula Fox
ISBN: 0-00-729141-8 / 978-0-00-729141-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Flamingo
Availability: Amazon UK
May 2003 : UK Paperback
October 1999 : USA Paperback
September 1986 : USA Paperback
January 1978 : USA Paperback

Title: The Widow' s Children
Author(s): Paula Fox
ISBN: 0-380-01791-1 / 978-0-380-01791-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Mass Market
Availability: Amazon
Audio Editions
June 2013 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Widow's Children: A Novel
Author(s): Paula Fox
Publisher: Audible Studios
Availability: Amazon
Kindle Editions
June 2012 : UK Kindle edition
June 2011 : USA, Canada Kindle edition