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In Her Day: A Novel
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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In Her Day: A Novel
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Rita Mae Brown
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:192 | Dimensions(mm): Height 174,Width 108 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780553275735
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Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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Imprint |
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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Publication Date |
1 October 1988 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust-until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative.
Author Biography
Rita Mae Brownis the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series;A Nose for JusticeandMurder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day;andSix of One,as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.
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