The Prodigal Women A Novel

Author : Nancy Hale
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537504
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal Women: A Novel written by Nancy Hale and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it 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.”

Author : Nancy Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal Women written by Nancy Hale and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love-lives of three women. Two are sisters from the South, their friend is a New Englander.

Author : Nancy Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780486806228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal Women written by Nancy Hale and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovered in the 1980s during a period of new appreciation for early 20th-century novels by American women, this compelling tale traces the intertwined lives of three "modern" young women in the 1920s and 30s. In addition to its fascinating characterizations, the story offers an engrossing portrait of a turbulent period of American history.

Author : Nancy Hale
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536435
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale written by Nancy Hale and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time “A stunning, crystalline collection.” —Vogue Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work. These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in "Midsummer," to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in "That Woman," to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in "Flotsam." Other stories touch on memories of childhood, the intense trauma of electroshock therapy, and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

Author : Marion Rust
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838810
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prodigal Daughters written by Marion Rust and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet this best-selling novel has long been perceived as the prime exemplar of female passivity and subjugation in the early Republic. Marion Rust disrupts this view by placing the novel in the context of Rowson's life and other writings. Rust shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women. Rust proposes that Rowson found a wide female audience in the young Republic because she articulated meaningful female agency without sacrificing accountability to authority, a particularly useful skill in a nation that idealized womanhood while denying women the most basic rights. Rowson, herself an expert at personal reinvention, invited her readers, theatrical audiences, and students to value carefully crafted female self-presentation as an instrument for the attainment of greater influence. Prodigal Daughters demonstrates some of the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in an increasingly hostile public arena.

Author : Jacquelin Thomas
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583145524
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal Husband written by Jacquelin Thomas and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy forces her husband Jake to find solace in the arms of another woman, Tori, who still deeply loves Jake, finds herself faced with many challenges as they attempt to reconcile, including Sheila Moore, Jake's manipulative business partner and ex-lover. Reprint.

Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429988142
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prodigal Wife written by Marcia Willett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deservedly compared to her countrywomen, Binchy and Pilcher, Willett is an equally gifted storyteller."—Booklist In Marcia Willett's latest novel, Jolyon, who had been abandoned by his mother, Maria, is living at the Keep with his father and his stepmother Fliss. Now that Jolyon is a successful television presenter of gardening programs, the recently widowed Maria, lonely and impressed by her son's fame, reappears and hopes to step back into his life. But Jolyon finds it difficult to trust his mother and forgive the hurt she had inflicted on him.

Author : Lauretta G. Ngcobo
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869142346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prodigal Daughters written by Lauretta G. Ngcobo and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of 17 women who left South Africa during the years of apartheid.

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0804152128
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Prodigal Son written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Image. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over a million copies sold, this classic work is essential reading for all who ask, “Where has my struggle led me?” A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on an unforgettable spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell. As Nouwen reflects on Rembrandt’s painting in light of his own life journey, he evokes a powerful drama of the classic parable in a rich, captivating way that is sure to reverberate in the hearts of readers. Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable: the younger son’s return, the father’s restoration of sonship, the elder son’s resentfulness, and the father’s compassion. The themes of homecoming, affirmation, and reconciliation will be newly discovered by all who have known loneliness, dejection, jealousy, or anger. The challenge to love as God loves, and to be loved as God’s beloved, will be seen as the ultimate revelation of the parable known to Christians throughout time, and is here represented with a vigor and power fresh for our times.

Author : Kimberla Lawson Roby
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455569704
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin of a Woman written by Kimberla Lawson Roby and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series that "sizzles with scandal" and is a "deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin" (Kirkus Reviews). Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people has dire consequences, the kind that Raven won't see coming.