Description: What Happened to Tom, Paperback by Tittle, Peg, ISBN 177133293X, ISBN-13 9781771332934, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Inspired by Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical thought experiment "The Violinist," What Happened to Tom?? is a psychological and philosophical thriller, a horror story that any one of millions of people could, at any moment, experience. Tom, like many men, assumes that since pregnancy is a natural part of being a woman, it's no big deal: a woman finds herself pregnant, she does or does not go through with it, end of story. But then Tom wakes up to find his body's been hijacked and turned into a human kidney dialysis machine. For nine months he has to stay connected to Simon, a famous violinist, or Simon will die. Tom finds he is powerless to take legal or medical action to deal with the situation. He loses his girlfriend, his car, his apartment, and eventually his job as an architect. At the end of the novel, he has lost almost everything he holds dear and his life is completely, and irrevocably, derailed, and entwined with that of a violinist who no longer wants to work. Considering this situation analogous to an unwanted pregnancy, What Happened to Tom? is ultimately a feminist allegory about women's reproductive rights.
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Book Title: What Happened to Tom
Number of Pages: 130 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 5.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Peg Tittle
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback