ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1900 - 1949.
Jezik: Engleski
Tematika: Književnost
Kulturno dobro: Predmet koji prodajem nije kulturno dobro ili ovlašćena institucija odbija pravo preče kupovine
Autor: Strani

Nancy Hale - The Prodigal Women
Charles Scribner`s Sons, New York, 1942
556 str.
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stanje: dobro
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Leda March was fifteen when she met the Jekyll sisters, two southern beauties with the money, position, and unerring social sense of a prominent Virginia family. They had everything Leda wanted.

From posh Beacon Hill homes to the bustling career hub of New York City and the languorous charm of Virginia in the twenties, we follow the lives of three extraordinary women. Through marriage and infidelity, brilliant careers and tragic love affairs, men and more men, they discover what it means to live--and love.

As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and VANITY FAIR

Set in Boston, New York, and Virginia, The Prodigal Women tells the intertwined stories of three young women who come of age in the Roaring Twenties, not flappers and golden girls but flesh-and-blood female protagonists looking wearily—and warily—at the paths open to women in a rapidly changing world.

Leda March, “frantic with self-consciousness and envy and desire,” is the daughter of poorer relations of a prominent Boston family and an aspiring poet torn between an impulse to conformity and the pursuit of personal freedom. Betsy Jekyll, newly arrived with her family from Virginia, becomes Leda’s closest childhood friend, bringing a beguiling new warmth and openness into the New Englander’s life. But Betsy soon abandons Boston to land a job at a fashion magazine and enjoy life as a single woman in New York before falling in love with—and marrying—an abusive, controlling man. Betsy’s older sister, Maizie, a Southern belle idolized by the two younger friends and pursued by numerous men, grows tired of “running around” and fatefully looks for happiness in marriage to a turbulent artist.

When The Prodigal Women was published in 1942, its uncompromising portrayal of women’s shifting roles, open sexuality, and ambivalence toward motherhood made it a succèss de scandale, spending twenty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Now Library of America restores Nancy Hale’s lost classic to print with a new introduction by Kate Bolick exploring how the novel measures “the gap between what liberation looks like, and what it actually is.”
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For intensity of emotion turbulent and surging drama, depth of understanding and sympathy for its remarkable exposition of feminine character and its discerning picture of American society “The Prodigal Women” stands as one of the most enthralling of contemporary American novels and fulfills in every way the critical predictions made for the author’s future when her shorter novels and stories were published.


Fiction, Classics