![]() ![]() Her husband George has left her for his latest young conquest, their twins Abbie and Dan are concerned for her happiness, her mother worries Alison will be mugged or worse. Alison, 54, is a professional PR writer from Chicago. She struggles to wrangle her luggage on and off trains, in and out of taxis and hotels, up and down stairs. The central character in Laurie Levy’s The Stendhal Summer, Alison Miller, carries a lot of baggage on her trip to Europe. In particular, handbags and tote bags can carry us as much as we carry them, and their fetishization as objects of desire and aspiration means we perform our cherished self-identities every time we drape them lovingly over our shoulder or grasp them warily at arm’s length. Somewhere, surely, a psychologist has written at length on the significance and symbolism of humanity’s baggage. ![]()
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