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Big Girls Don't Cry
Paperback
Series: Weldon, Fay
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9780871137593
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: Sep 2 1999
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.88
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man's world--only to be foiled by their own ambition
A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.
It's the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men's hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing gives the so-called Four Furies a platform for speaking out against female oppression.
Layla is a wealthy, fundamental radical, intolerant of anyone whose ideals deviate, even slightly, from her own--that is, until she finds herself seduced by a married man; tiny Alice is all mind and very little matter, until she discovers the dangerous New Age practice of goddess worship; Stephanie leaves her unfaithful husband in pursuit of sexual fulfillment with other men--and women; and Nancy, tired of washing her fiancé's socks, discovers she has a remarkable mind for business.
Big Girls Don't Cry is the story of four women who are determined to change the world, and who, over the course of two-and-a-half decades, ultimately transform themselves.
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