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Bunny Lake is Missing
by Evelyn Piper
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January 2005 -  Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children after the first day of nursery school on New York's Upper East Side. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. Blanche soon experiences every mother's most dreaded nightmare, when Bunny, her daughter, fails to materialize. Neither teachers nor students recall the small girl, and soon Blanche is engaged in a frantic search for any trace of her missing daughter. And the worst part is...no one beleives she even has a child. In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality. Even the police refuse to help Blanche search for Bunny, lacking evidence of the girl's existence, and not able to imagine that a middle-class white woman would have a child outside of wedlock. Instead they assign a psychologist to get to the root of her delusions. But Blanche takes matters into her own hands, scouring New York's back alleys and riverside parks, clibing out of windows, and--finally--using a gun to get some answers. Emerging from the book's moments of hysteria as a new kind of heroine--the hard-boiled mom--Blanche Lake turns 1950s psychology on its head and exposes the creepiness of anti-sexual social norms. A cult classic, the film version of Bunny Lake is Missing was reset in swinging London, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Carol Lynley and Laurence Olivier (with music by the Zombies). A remake of Bunny Lake is Missing starring Reese Witherspoon is currently in development. Bunny Lake is Missing
Author: Evelyn Piper
Afterword: Maria DiBattista
Language: English
Publisher: Feminist Press
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1558614753
List Price: $49.00
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1558614745
List Price: $14.95
Franklin Dennis
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
(212) 817-7915
fdennis@gc.cuny.edu
http://www.feministpress.org
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