| Fanny Foote came to New York to seekher fortune, had sailed off high-hearted,and has been depressed ever since. She isnot seriously depressed but unpleasantlygrounded, in part by her dull job at afeminist magazine but also by the failureof freedom to bring extravagant returns.She is twenty-six and treading water, andnow without warning Fate plucks herfrom tedious obscurity and assigns herSuccess, Travel, Romance. Fanny is a woman of her generation,sexually active, and privately disap-pointed. Her father and mother--re-sponsible, caring parents are people oftheir generation; Elizabeth worriedevery time the phone rings to hear fromher sad daughter, Marcus waiting for thatdaughter to get on with it. At the heart of this otherwise excellentFoote family is a fi ftccn-year rift. After aquarrel, Fanny s adored aunt Carolinedecamped abruptly with the elegantLutecie Tavcrnier for France, where theyestablished a sort of fancy boarding-house for scholars, writers, and musi-cians, and have made a narnc forthemselves. When Fanny s editor dis-covers her relationship to Footc andTavernier she is ccstatic because, shesays, they arc the quintessential lesbians,and she sends Fanny off to write them up.Fanny, shocked to death, goes. Seton calls herself a writer of seriouscomedy, a soft feminist, and (reluctantly)a moralist. She lives in Northampton,Massachusetts. This is her fifth novel. |
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