The Second Dune
Paperback
Series: Texas Tradition, Book 34
Publisher Price: $17.95
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 0875652735
ISBN13: 9780875652733
Publisher: Texas Christian Univ Pr
Published: Jan 23 2003
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.66 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780875652733
Publisher: Texas Christian Univ Pr
Published: Jan 23 2003
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.66 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
The Second Dune, Shelby Hearon's second novel, was published in 1973 and won the Texas Institute of Letters Award as the best book of fiction of the year. Written when Hearon was forty-three and just before her divorce, the novel is seen from the point of view of suburban housewives and their mothers and daughters. Ellen Marshall, divorced and remarried, is troubled by her son's refusal to accept her second husband, but takes great comfort from the five-year-old daughter of her second marriage. She hopes to be able to pass on to her daughter some of the knowledge that only women possess and to help little Ellen see that women need to break the bonds that society has forced upon them. As the narrator says early in the novel, Raised by women, schooled by women, we who are mothers now were taught to look across the gulf to men and count ourselves as they counted us. Ellen hopes her daughter will be different just as she is slowly becoming different herself.
1 different editions
Also available
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
$42.75
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99
