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008			090112s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008038312
020			_a9781416594987
050	0	0	_aPS3573.A42113 _bS54 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC WAL
100	1		_aWalbert, Kate _d(, 1961-)
245	1	2	_aA short history of women _b: a novel _c/ Kate Walbert
250			_a1st Scribner hardcover ed
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2009.
300			_aix, 239 p. _b: geneal. table _c; 24 cm.
520			_aNational Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.The novel opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause. Her choice echoes in the stories of her descendants interwoven throughout: a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother's infamy by immigrating to America just after World War I to begin a career in science; a niece who chooses a conventional path -- marriage, children, suburban domesticity -- only to find herself disillusioned with her husband of fifty years and engaged in heartbreaking and futile antiwar protests; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of the times while getting drunk on a children's playdate in post-9/11 Manhattan. In a kaleidoscope of voices and with a richness of imagery, emotion, and wit, Walbert portrays the ways in which successive generations of women have responded to what the Victorians called "The Woman Question." As she did in her critically acclaimed The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind, Walbert induces "a state in which the past seems to hang effortlessly amid the present" (The New York Times). A Short History of Women is her most ambitious novel, a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century to reflect the tides of time and the ways in which the lives of our great-grandmothers resonate in our own.
650			_aWomen _z-Canada _x-Social life and customs _v--Fiction
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