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Sto caricando le informazioni... Begin Again (1936)di Ursula Orange
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"In her charming and incisive debut novel, Ursula Orange focuses her sharp eye on four young women only recently down from Oxford. Jane and Florence live in London, working at office jobs, the latter channelling her excess energy into a dreadfully earnest novel of her own. Sylvia remains at home, shocking her family with theories of sexual and social liberation. And Leslie, as the novel opens, idealizes the other three, as she tries to convince her mother to let her use her small nest egg to attend art school in London. As the four friends balance their youthful ideals with the realities of work and romance in 1930s England, Orange offers hilarious and thoughtful perspectives on the quandaries of educated, ambitious women in a world not yet ready for them. This new edition includes an introduction by Stacy Marking."-- Back cover. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The two other young women are friends of Jane and Florence who did not go to university and who each live at home in the country with their parents. Leslie is dying to move to London on her own and go to art school. She has invited Jane and Florence to a weekend party to help convince her mother of how wonderful it would be to live on her own in London. Sylvia, the other friend, has adopted all the modern ideas about free love and the independence of women, but she and her boyfriend, who are getting serious, mostly just talk about these matters, rather than acting. When she sees her younger sister acting on some of these new ideas, Sylvia begins to rethink her position.
At first I thought the book was a bit dated, but it really grew on me. In the end I enjoyed it as a witty diversion and a visit back to a simpler more innocent time. It was a charming read.
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