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'A classic...the kind of book that changes lives' FAY WELDON on The Women's Room. 'French's fleshed-out characters and forceful writing make this flag-waving fiction of the very best kind' SHE on Our Father. 'All of Marilyn French's women pulse with life and individuality' THE NEW YORK TIMES on The Women's Room. Hermione has written many novels, all ending happily ever after. In her mid-sixties, married four times and divorced twice, she knows it doesn't really happen like that. One summer, at a party in Connecticut, Hermione meets George - her knees tremble and her heart beats faster. They often meet for lunch (he allots one hour), he walks her to her apartment (but never into her bedroom), she meets his friends (he doesn't ask about hers). Yet she still waits for the phone to ring every morning. She hasn't felt this attraction in ten years. But why won't he kiss her?
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In 1977, Marilyn French inspired a generation of feminists with The Women's Room. Twenty years later she still refuses to go quietly, play with the grandchildren, and prune the roses, as women of a certain advanced age are supposed to. Instead, she has written a romantic novel, and true to her youthful vigor, it is a subversive one. French joins Doris Lessing in believing that the libido can survive old age in women as in men. At the beginning of the novel, the heroine has cast aside her self-image as a desirable woman, as society expects; but then she meets a dashing editor in his 50s, and snap--she is consumed by erotic longing. She is able to analyze intelligently the whole disturbing situation with her knowing women friends, even while she enjoys a delicious summer of romance.
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In this new novel by the author of The Women's Room and Her Mother's Daughter, a hugely successful, middle-aged writer of romance novels encounters the possibility of romantic love in her own life.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 024113658X
- ISBN 13 9780241136584
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages266
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