The Yellow Slicker: A Fable for Women

Title

en_US The Yellow Slicker: A Fable for Women

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Story and Original Art by Pegi Clark Pearson

Creator

en_US Pearson, Pegi Clark See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Pearson, Pegi Clark

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:10Z

en_US 2003-07

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US Each of eleven pages of text in this large-format book is matched with a full-page black-and-white line illustration, almost always of a nude woman. The story starts when a man asks a woman why she is wearing a yellow slicker on a sunny day. The answer is Well, I'd rather wear nothing, but since that is not the custom, I wear this raincoat. He gets her lovely clothes and throws away her yellow slicker. At his invitation, she follows him to his country to be his wife. After some time of difficult loneliness and efforts to please him--and to hide the yellow slicker that she surreptitiously recovered--she leaves him and his gifts, writing that she cannot please him any more. The back of the dj reminds us that A fable is a cautionary tale. It offers the reader a bit of information from which a lesson can be drawn. I think one of the most easily perceived lessons here is about pleasing other people at the cost of giving away oneself. I will need some time to appreciate how the nudes enhance the story. I had seen this book mentioned a number of times, and am glad to have put my hands on it.

Identifier

en_US 1879198045

en_US 4601 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80255

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Knowledge Ideas & Trends,

en_US Manchester, CT

Subject

en_US PS3566.E2335 Y45 1992 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole