| International Standard Book Number |
9781400344758 (epub)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400344741 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1400344743 (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Bostwick, Marie, author.
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| Title Statement |
The book club for troublesome women : a novel / Marie Bostwick.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Nashville : Harper Muse, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
372 pages ; 22 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new "planned community" in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson -- the eccentric and artsy "new neighbor" from Manhattan -- and read Betty Friedan's just-released book, The Feminine Mystique. Controversial and groundbreaking, the book struck a chord with an entire generation of women, helping them realize that they weren't alone in their dissatisfactions, or their longings, lifting their eyes to new horizons of possibility and achievement. Margaret, Charlotte, Bitsy, and Viv are among them. But is it really the book that alters the lives of these four very different women? Or is it the bond of sisterhood that helps them find courage to confront the past, navigate turmoil in a rapidly changing world, and see themselves in a new and limitless light?
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Female friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen sixties Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Book clubs (Discussion groups) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Suburban life Virginia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Second-wave feminism Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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