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Margot : a novel / Wendell Steavenson.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.T43 M37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steavenson, Wendell, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Upper class--Fiction.
- Upper class.
- Women college students--Fiction.
- Women college students.
- Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Sex role--20th century--Fiction.
- Sex role.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Campus fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution"-- Provided by publisher
- It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her--to forego education and marry well--but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up--the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for.
- ISBN:
- 9781324020844
- 1324020849
- OCLC:
- 1358419863
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