physicians' spouses

The desires and illusions of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor in mid-nineteenth-century France, are shattered when reality catches up with her.

A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town.

Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.

"Flaubert's tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman town between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail, Madame Bovary exposes the emptiness of one woman's bourgeois existence and her failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emma's thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment."--back cover.

Presents the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife who becomes bored with marriage and motherhood, and embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, and then finds herself in a downward spiral to destruction.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.