All He Ever Wanted
by Anita Shreve
Age band: 15+
Looky Rating System: Violence 2/5, Love & Romance 4/5, Mental Health 2/5, Language 1/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 1/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5, Sci-Fi / Futuristic 1/5, Disability & Neurodiversity 0/5.
Description
Anita Shreve's All He Ever Wanted reads like Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own told from the perspective of the husband. The wife gains a measure of freedom, but how does the repressive, abandoned husband feel about that freedom? Set in the early 1900s in the fictional New England college town of Thrupp, and narrated by the pompous Nicholas Van Tassel, All He Ever Wanted is at once an academic satire, a period novel, and a tale of suspense.