000			01777nam a2200253 a 4500
001			041455
005			20231009192712.0
008			230126s20012001nyc 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780156007191
082	1		_aFIC DRA _2
100	1		_aDrabble, Margaret _d(, 1939-)
245	0	4	_aThe peppered moth _c/ Margaret Drabble
260			_aNew York _b: A Harvest Book _c, 2001
300			_a369 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aIn the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie's daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter. Nearly a century after that, Bessie's granddaughter finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden and unexplained resurgence.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aWomen college students _v--Fiction
650		4	_aDeterminism (Philosophy) _x-Fiction
650		4	_aSmall cities _vFiction
651		4	_aEngland _y-20th century _x-Fiction
655		4	_aBildungsromans
942			_cMO
999			_c248584 _d248584