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A Short History of Women
Kate Walbert
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2009
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Women
ISBN
141659499X
9781416594994
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=onTGBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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BOOK PRIZE
A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters,
A Short History of Women
chronicles five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.
Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her descendants—a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother’s infamy; a granddaughter who chooses a conventional path, only to find herself disillusioned; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of post-9/11 Manhattan.
In a kaleidoscope of characters and with a richness of imagery, emotion, and wit,
A Short History of Women
is a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century—a book for "any woman who has ever struggled to find her own voice; to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter, and lover" (Associated Press).