Riassunto:
Set in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts in the landmark year 2000, this novel is a group portrait of four disparate women whose personalities vary as greatly as their circumstances and ages. The four weather past and present family crises while collectively they forge emotional links that help each person refashion her life.
A seventy-six-year-old real estate agent and matriarch of the group, Maddy agonizes as lung cancer claims her already embittered, Vietnam-marked son; Maddy's friend since grade school, Emily Oldfield, seventy years old, is gradually bridging relations with the estranged niece she raised as her own child ; fifty-year-old Alicia fights to reconnect her newly retired husband with their gay son; lastly, Jenny, the thirty-something artist, finds that the compelling urge for a baby destabilizes her fundamentally unequal marriage to Tim Halliwell, an internationally recognized painter.
Recensione:
Marilyn French is "brilliant . . . full of life and passions that ring true as crystal." —The Washington Post
"French brings a novelist's eye, a scholar's sense of detail, and a feminist's worldview . . . [this is] a novel for women with a progressive perspective on gender bias and an old-fashioned fondness for discussing the curveballs life lobs." —Publishers Weekly
"Without romanticizing women's friendships, she shows them to be the saving grace of civilization." —Gloria Steinem
"French continues to write about the inner lives of women with insight and intimacy." —The New York Times Book Review
"This finely detailed group portrait . . . [celebrating] women's cherishing friendships and creativity offers striking observations about how and why women's lives have improved and suggests that . . . it's time to bring progressive ideas . . . out into the light." —Booklist
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