Stella Dallas (Literary Cinema Classics Series) - Softcover

Prouty, Olive Higgins

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9780060964498: Stella Dallas (Literary Cinema Classics Series)

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ISBN 10: 0060964499 ISBN 13: 9780060964498

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1990

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Ambitious for her daughter, Laurel, Stella decides to marry a man she finds repugnant, in order to force Laurel to go back to her wealthy father, Stella's first husband

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About the Author:

Olive Higgins Prouty (1882 1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including Stella Dallas (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial. A graduate of Smith College, Prouty endowed a writer’s scholarship at Smith that was received by Sylvia Plath, who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly in The Bell Jar.

Review:

"Under Olive Higgins Prouty's genteel prose beats a heart of expertly observed class analysis and steely eyed depictions of women mothers, daughters, and wives in American society... Stella Dallas is a feminist gem of tough but compassionate realism." Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

"You can't understand the dynamics of mother blaming that seeps through pop culture without this wrenching novel. Read it and weep literally!" Jamie Babbit, director of But I'm a Cheerleader

One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.” New York Times

"Mrs. Prouty has triumphed with her Stella Dallas. She has revealed a rich and deep understanding of human weaknesses and shortcomings." NY World

"One does not have the good fortune to encounter many times in a season so sound a novel as Mrs. Prouty's Stella Dallas... It has a simple but deeply moving narrative. It portrays several characters with an understanding and sympathy that is so human that we seem to have walked their path with them." Boston Transcript

"Under Olive Higgins Prouty's genteel prose beats a heart of expertly observed class analysis and steely eyed depictions of women―mothers, daughters, and wives―in American society... Stella Dallas is a feminist gem of tough but compassionate realism." ―Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

"You can't understand the dynamics of mother blaming that seeps through pop culture without this wrenching novel. Read it and weep―literally!" ―Jamie Babbit, director of But I'm a Cheerleader

“One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.” ―New York Times

"Mrs. Prouty has triumphed with her Stella Dallas. She has revealed a rich and deep understanding of human weaknesses and shortcomings." ―NY World

"One does not have the good fortune to encounter many times in a season so sound a novel as Mrs. Prouty's Stella Dallas... It has a simple but deeply moving narrative. It portrays several characters with an understanding and sympathy that is so human that we seem to have walked their path with them." ―Boston Transcript

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