The Women's Room - Hardcover

French, Marilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067140010X ISBN 13: 9780671400101

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1977

Synopsis

The twenty-one-million copy bestseller?available again for a new generation of readers Originally published in 1977, The Women?s Room was a novel that?for the first time?expressed the inner lives of women who left education and professional advancement behind to marry in the 1950s, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorce in the 1970s. Some became destitute, a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women?s Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. Marilyn French?s characters represent this wide cross section of American women, and her wry and pointed voice gives depth and emotional intensity to this timeless book that remains controversial and completely relevant.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Women's Room by Marilyn French is a classic of feminist writing. You can learn about the feminist movement in it's hayday, by soaking up this engrossing novel. I wish I were picking it up for the first time, so I could enjoy it, and remember.

Ruth Ross
Art Director Ballantine Books

From the Back Cover:

The bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men, The Women's Room follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 067140010X
• ISBN 13: 9780671400101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 471