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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hot Flashesdi Barbara Raskin
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New York Times Bestseller: This "landmark women's novel" about female friendship and women's lib is "something akin to Mary McCarthy's The Group" (People). Diana Sargeant is a menopausal anthropology professor whose hot flashes often produce insights into life, love, and what it means to be a woman. Diana belongs to a generation of A-list females: well-educated jet-setters who overcame their fear of flying in the fifties, became leftist protestors in the sixties, and were glamorous seductresses on birth control in the seventies. But in the eighties, they're middle-aged matrons who are afraid of their own mortality and must come to terms with the fact that even though they obtained everything they desired, they're still unfulfilled. When Diana's close friend Sukie Amram suffers a fatal brain hemorrhage, the professor rushes to Washington, DC, to mourn and commemorate the woman she so loved. There, she reunites with her lifelong pals: flashy magazine writer Joanne Ireland and divorced English teacher Elaine Cantor. The three soon discover Sukie's journal, which details her battle with despair after her husband abandoned her for a younger lover. As they read through the details of Sukie's postdivorce anguish, the friends revisit difficult moments in their own pasts and discover themselves anew. Called "a feminist version of The Big Chill" by the Washington Post, Hot Flashes is an irreverent, witty, and emotionally engaging novel about four intelligent, trailblazing women that provides a compelling, honest look at female fears and desire during the late twentieth century. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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On the occasion of Sukie's death, Diana, Elaine, Joanne, and other members of society's new elite gather to mourn, to relive their past together, and to confront their middle-age desires