Shattering Glass - Hardcover

Rotstein, Nancy-Gay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374262233 ISBN 13: 9780374262235

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

"Rotstein vividly outlines the lives of three successful women who reminisce about what they have sacrificed--traditional family values for career and vice versa--to get what they want.... She brings her three protagonists to life with sympathy."
--Publishers Weekly

"In ways tragic, lonely and heroic this novel shimmers with contemporary hopes and fears. Recommended for its dramatic plotting and riveting dialogue." Rating: Excellent
--The Readers Review

"What is the price of career success for women? The author takes us through the lives of three successful women, and in the inevitable juggling of home, family and career, sacrifices are made. The plot is well-crafted, the dialogue realistic and the characters well-drawn.
--New Books: The magazine for readers and reading groups (U.K.)

Novel holds a mirror to today's woman trying to balance family, career and fulfillment.

Three talented and determined women reach the pinnacle of success and find themselves thrown together at a critical moment that will change each of their lives forever.

In her powerful novel SHATTERING GLASS, Nancy-Gay Rotstein masterfully weaves the tales of three women, who, like so many, find themselves caught between career and family, trying to maintain a precarious balance between success, independence and motherhood. With compelling realism, SHATTERING GLASS confronts these issues that remain unresolved as it follows the women through their challenges, pain, joy and triumphs. Rotstein creates three very different women, each of whom in their own way shatter the "glass ceiling" and must cope with the inner turmoil brought on by being pulled in opposite directions by her desire for career success and striving to be a good mother.

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About the Author

Nancy-Gay Rotstein has been internationally praised for her poetry, which includes her most recent collection, This Horizon and Beyond: Poems Selected and New. Shattering Glass, her first novel, has been published to date in twelve major countries, most recently in the United Kingdom. Visit Nancy-Gay Rotstein on the web at nancygayrotstein.ca.

From Publishers Weekly

Canadian author Rotstein's debut novel (after three books of poetry, including China: Shockwaves) vividly outlines the lives of three successful women who reminisce about what they have sacrificed?traditional family values for career and vice versa?to get what they want. Divorced Judy, 32, struggles to raise a son and pledges her house and savings to get a bank loan. She puts herself through law school and lands a job with a prestigious Washington law firm, after which she's hired as a corporate executive by a client. Her success, however, is overshadowed by her failure to stop her neglected son from turning into a juvenile delinquent. In contrast, wealthy Dede, the wife of a member of Canada's parliament, remains close to her sons but makes the tragic error of hiring a college student to be their male role model in the absence of her campaigning husband. Of all three women, Barbara, a battered housewife turned popular novelist, is the best-developed character, struggling to keep her family together while writing. The women eventually meet at an Italian spa. Despite the schematic structure (four parts, one devoted to each of the women and a final section in Italy), Rotstein's writing nicely transcends the commercial fiction genre, and she brings her three protagonists to life with sympathy.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374262233
• ISBN 13: 9780374262235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373