From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big , a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney ( Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk ). First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family--Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the narrator describes them, their lives weave together as they deal ...
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From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big , a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney ( Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk ). First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family--Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the narrator describes them, their lives weave together as they deal with issues involving money, work, friendship, family, and love as they strive to join Chicago's growing middle class in the early twentieth century. With a historic span that travels from the Civil War to World War I, Ferber highlights how the three generations of Charlottes lead very different lives. But we also see the ways their experiences rhyme with one another and how, despite the social advances in America, as Kathleen Rooney writes in her introduction, all three have to confront "a sexist and claustrophobic societal atmosphere in which any little act of self-assertion can feel like a leap from a precipice." Told through Ferber's assured and generous style, and full of her signature strong female characters, this rediscovered American classic deserves a spot on the shelf next to other great Chicago novels like Sister Carrie and The Adventures of Augie March .
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The World Publishing Company / Forum Books
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1948
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Good in Acceptable jacket. Stated first Forum printing, March 1948; originally published in 1921. Brown boards with paler brown titles and decoration, rubbed to edges with points of fraying to bottom fore-edge corners and corners of spine foot. Bumped to spine tips. Pale soiling to lower fore-edges. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned, moderately edgeworn with chipping at spine tips. DJ protected in Mylar. Prior owner's name and info at front paste down, and verso of RFEP. Interior else clean, pages tanned, text unmarked.
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