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The book club for troublesome women : a novel / Marie Bostwick.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Bostwick Book
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bostwick, Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Fiction.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Suburban life--Virginia--Fiction.
- Suburban life.
- Second-wave feminism--Fiction.
- Second-wave feminism.
- Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Female friendship--Fiction.
- Female friendship.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Virginia--Fiction.
- Virginia.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 372 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Nashville, Tennessee] : Harper Muse, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb"-- Provided by publisher.
- By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new "planned community" in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson--the eccentric and artsy "new neighbor" from Manhattan--and read Betty Friedan's just-released book, The Feminine Mystique. Controversial and groundbreaking, the book struck a chord with an entire generation of women, helping them realize that they weren't alone in their dissatisfactions, or their longings, lifting their eyes to new horizons of possibility and achievement. Margaret, Charlotte, Bitsy, and Viv are among them. But is it really the book that alters the lives of these four very different women? Or is it the bond of sisterhood that helps them find courage to confront the past, navigate turmoil in a rapidly changing world, and see themselves in a new and limitless light?
- Notes:
- Includes discussion questions.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Bostwick, Marie. Book club for troublesome women
- Online version: Bostwick, Marie. Book club for troublesome women
- ISBN:
- 9781400344741
- 1400344743
- OCLC:
- 1457637722
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