| Here, in nine wonderfully various, richly tex- tured stories, are the most telling moments in the lives of nine women. Among them:* Myra Rowland, recently widowed, returning to the resort she had visited year after year with her husband--and finding the change in her life, the change in herself, everywhere mirrored in the atti- tudes of her summer neighbors* Barbara Eagleton, an elegant black woman in her forties, who, on the night of her daughter s mar- riage, takes the first crucial step toward the long- planned dissolution of her own* Nancy Martinson, who curses the fate that has allowed her to be the sole survivor of a plane crash in which she has lost her entire family--and who resolves to court death in a chillingly methodical way* Angela Taylor, an ambitious businesswoman whose comfortable, neatly circumscribed world is shaken to its foundations when her female lover announces the desire--the need--to bear a child~ Mary Margaret Maclntyre,grown daughter of working-class Roman Catholics, who shatters the Wednesday-night family routine (dinner-and- novena)--breaking through the complacency and hypocrisy behind which her parents protect them- selves--as she declares her intention to divorce her husband. Here are women young and old, rich and poor, plain and beautiful--housewives, lovers, daugh- ters, widows, mothers--nine women whose lives are opened out to us in prose of elegance and grace, in stories that reflect a profound under- standing of the emotional complexities of every- day life. |
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