"On our 20th wedding anniversary my husband had invited me to an
elegant dinner. We sat in the casino-restaurant by candlelight and
had already ordered our meal. I had asked for filets of milk-fed
lamb, he a wiener schnitzel. He raised his glass and instead of
saying: "To our future happiness" he looked at me intently and
said: "I'm taking this opportunity today to tell you that I'm
planning to leave you. And so I'd like to drink with you to the
years still lying ahead of us, and which we'll be spending apart."
I felt that this could only be one of his bad jokes, and gave a
somewhat forced laugh..." A ghastly snippet in the life of
52-year-old Elfriede Schweiger-and an opportunity. The abandoned
wife and mother of a full-grown son studies law and opens her own
practice. The housewife is transformed into a career woman. But new
men enter her life, and with them come new problems. On the Phone
is the journal of a woman in upheaval and transition. Evelyn Grill
dissects the physical and spiritual sensitivities of this woman in
the prime of life, recounting moments of hope, disappointment,
love, self-doubt, and megalomania. Aloof, laconic, and full of
irony, Elfriede Schweiger's narrative causes a period of upheaval
in her life to pass like a parade before the reader's view.
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