Verfasser:
Feldman, Ellen
Verfasser Angabe:
Ellen Feldman
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Picador
Erscheinungsort:
London
Jahr:
2012
Umfang:
292 S.
Auflage:
2. Aufl.
Fußnote:
Text: Englisch
ISBN:
978-1-904699-72-9
Interessenskreise:
American Literature
Inhalt:
It's 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing. As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way it was.
From postwar traumas to women's rights, racial injustice to anti-Semitism, Babe, Grace, and Millie experience the dislocations, the acute pains, and the exhilaration of a society in flux. Along the way, they will learn what it means to be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor. Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, Next to Love is a love letter to the brave women who shaped a nation's destiny.
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