# The Pumpkin Eater

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- Book: [The Pumpkin Eater](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-mortimer/the-pumpkin-eater) ([The Pumpkin Eater.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-mortimer/the-pumpkin-eater.md))
- Authors: [Penelope Mortimer](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-mortimer)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-382-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2011-04-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her...