发表于2024-11-24
A Woman of Feeling 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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In her third and finest novel, the author of Mrs.
Beneker and A Loving Wife gives us a charming and
moving (and unself-righteous) portrait of that much
maligned woman, the middle-class, middle-aged lib
eral lady, trying to understand her "now generation"
children through her memory of her own "political"
past.
Jo (Mrs. Ben Baer) is the nice New York lady
you ve seen lunching at the Plaza, browsing at Brcn-
tano s and Doubleday s, choosing lamb chops in
D Agostino s-and tutoring ghetto boys, and taking
part in the candlelight vigil for peace in front of St.
Patrick s. She has been called an egghead, a bleeding
heart, a Comsymp, but what she is is a woman of
feeling whose heart is as touched by headlines as it is
by her own children.
Jo s own two children now fill her heart with con-
fusion and fear. They belong to the generation that
lives in chaotic shim pads, that scorns material things,
that doesn t marry (or feels guilty if it does), that
nervously contemplates adopting an American In-
dian-or should it be hlack?-baby, that cngages full-
time in protest, that vanishes from sight or hearing
for months at a time. And when her son finds himself
on the fringes of serious political trouble, Jo, in ter-
ror, relives her own soul-scarching time: the days
when she herself was called beforc a Congrcssional committee-an ordeal from which she is just now, a
whole generation later, beginning to recover.
How she comes to terms with her children, her
fears, and her confusions is told in A Woman of
Feeling. Among its many pleasures: an intelligent
and lovable heroine and, perhaps for the first time,
an essential sensibility defined-in a novel that ex-
plores, seriously and with grace, the relationship
between parents and grown children today.
A Woman of Feeling 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书