| No Love Lost is Helen Van Sly ke at her best:a splendid family story spanning threegenerations of extraordinary and- very dif-ferent wives, written with Van Slyke s keenunderstanding of the conflicts that besetthe modern woman. America was struggling through theDepression when Pauline Thresher, thebeautiful wife of a powerful banker, lefther husband of twenty-five years becauseshe could no longer bear his flagrant in-fidelity. Sara Thresher, her wise and com-passionate mother-in-law, understood toowell that wealth and position could notcompensate for marriage to a cold, domi-neering man. She chose to go withPauline, even though it meant a crueland perhaps irrevocable estrangementfrom her own son. But Lindsay, Pauline slovely, willful daughter, stood on the thresh-old of a different world--a world whichwould demand all her resilience and deter-ruination if she was to survive as herown woman |
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