{"product_id":"the-prodigal-women-a-novel","title":"The Prodigal Women: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eRediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and VANITY FAIR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Boston, New York, and Virginia, \u003ci\u003eThe Prodigal Women\u003c\/i\u003e tells the intertwined stories of three young women who come of age in the Roaring Twenties, not flappers and golden girls but flesh-and-blood female protagonists looking wearily and warily at the paths open to women in a rapidly changing world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeda March,  frantic with self-consciousness and envy and desire,  is the daughter of poorer relations of a prominent Boston family and an aspiring poet torn between an impulse to conformity and the pursuit of personal freedom. Betsy Jekyll, newly arrived with her family from Virginia, becomes Leda s closest childhood friend, bringing a beguiling new warmth and openness into the New Englander s life. But Betsy soon abandons Boston to land a job at a fashion magazine and enjoy life as a single woman in New York before falling in love with and marrying an abusive, controlling man. Betsy s older sister, Maizie, a Southern belle idolized by the two younger friends and pursued by numerous men, grows tired of  running around  and fatefully looks for happiness in marriage to a turbulent artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Prodigal Women\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1942, its uncompromising portrayal of women s shifting roles, open sexuality, and ambivalence toward motherhood made it a \u003ci\u003esuccèss de scandale\u003c\/i\u003e, spending twenty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Now Library of America restores Nancy Hale s lost classic to print with a new introduction by Kate Bolick exploring how the novel measures  the gap between what liberation looks like, and what it actually is.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53791944638802,"sku":"9781598537499","price":30.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_7cd518d4-2484-4f9f-9681-c2febe925bce.jpg?v=1781810903","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-prodigal-women-a-novel","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}