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The Fifth Wheel

The Fifth Wheel

Prouty, Olive Higgins

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RomanceLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1515449386
ISBN13: 9781515449386
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Dec 7 2020
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First published in 1916, The Fifth Wheel is Olive Higgins Prouty's nuanced examination of youth, social belonging, and emotional resilience in early twentieth-century America.

The novel centers on Ruth, a young woman navigating the rigid expectations of social life and the quiet cruelty of exclusion. Positioned perpetually at the margins-neither fully inside nor entirely outside the social circle she inhabits-Ruth must confront both personal insecurity and the broader structures that determine acceptance and status. Prouty portrays the psychological cost of being the extra presence, the one who does not quite fit, yet refuses to withdraw.

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