UID:
kobvindex_ZLB35162704
Umfang:
845 pages
ISBN:
9781598537499
Inhalt:
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.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Fiktionale Darstellung
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