| In the Name of Friendship Contributor(s): French, Marilyn (Author), Genty, Stéphanie (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1558615202 ISBN-13: 9781558615205 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: "Shows [women's friendships] to be the saving grace of civilization."-Gloria Steinem "Set in Steventon, an affluent town in the Berkshires, this finely detailed group portrait [of four disparate women] . . . celebrates women's cherishing friendships and creativity . . . the intelligent and openhearted women and men [French] warmly portrays are compelling."-Booklist Now available in paperback, the update by the author of the classic novel The Women's Room (21 million sold worldwide) explores the truth and realities behind women's lives during the landmark year 2000. Marilyn French is the best-selling author of six novels. Stphanie Genty is an associate professor at the Universit d'Evry-Val d'Essonne. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005032142 |
| Series: Classic Feminist Writers |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.7" W x 8.65" (1.16 lbs) 407 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marilyn French's seven million copy bestseller The Women's Room crystallized the issues that ignited the women's movement. Now the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women's lives. In the Name of Friendship dares to investigate how the women's movement changed the lives of those it touched and what hurdles it left to cross. Set in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages. The novel weaves together a series of family crises with the friendships that help the four women refashion their lives. Maddy, the seventy-six-year-old real estate agent and matriarch of the group, struggles with the gradual death of her angry and rebellious Vietnam-marked son; fifty-year-old Alicia fights to reconnect her gay son with her newly retired husband; seventy-year-old musician Emily strives to bridge the gap with her estranged niece right at the moment her composition career starts to finally bloom; and Jenny, the thirty-year-old painter and baby of the group, questions the life she has created with her successful painter husband and tries to decide if she wants more from life. With this unusual group of multi-generational ladies, French tells a truly rare tale about four women who accidentally come into each other's lives and in the process form an enduring friendship. It is a story of supporting one another, of looking at the grim conflicts created by cultural expectations of women, and realizing you are not alone--truly a tale of continuing hope. |