The Prodigal Women
$51.02
- Paperback
875 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2023
Summary
Rediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it.
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 daught…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537499 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537490 |
| Author: | Nancy Hale, Kate Bolick |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 875 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale (1908-1988) was born in Boston to a distinguished New England family whose forbearers include Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was the author of eight novels, including the bestselling The Prodigal Women, four short story collections, two memoirs, two plays, children’s stories, and a biography on Mary Cassatt. The winner of ten O. Henry Awards, Hale published over two hundred stories and essays, eighty of which appeared in The New Yorker, making her one of the most important contributors in the history of the magazine.
Kate Bolick is the author of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own and co-author of March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women.
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