Poor Cow
A Virago Modern Classic
$22.75
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC OF SIXTIES LONDON
‘Touching, truthful and fresh - a tour de force’ MARGARET DRABBLE
‘Hilarious, heartbreaking’ PARIS REVIEW
‘Her art is ignited by voice’ ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN
‘Exuberantly alive’ SUNDAY TIMES
To think when I was a kid I planned to conquer the world and if anyone saw me now they’d say, ‘She’s had a rough night, poor cow.’
Joy - twenty-one, bleach-blonde, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349020853 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034902085X |
| Author: | Nell Dunn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Her art is ignited by voice, especially by voice more usually given no societal, literary or aesthetic power or space but whose authority, as you hear it, is unquestionable * Guardian *
It was Nell’s interest in the women of the working class that made her work truly radical * Independent *
Touching, truthful and fresh … written with an unselfconscious elegance that conceals its craft … A tour de force
Nell Dunn’s hilarious, heartbreaking Poor Cow, about a single mother in sixties London * Paris Review *
About The Author
Nell Dunn
Nell Dunn (1936) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. She was educated at a convent which she left at the age of fourteen.
She shot to fame with Poor Cow (1967) and Up the Junction (1963), both of which became successful films. Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize.
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