In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French

In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French

Marilyn French's seven million copy bestseller The Women's Room crystallized the issues that ignited the women's movement. Now the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women's lives. In the Name of Friendship dares to investigate how the women's movement changed the lives of those it touched and what hurdles it left to cross.

Set in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages. The novel weaves together a series of family crises with the friendships that help the four women refashion their lives. Maddy, the seventy-six-year-old real estate agent and matriarch of the group, struggles with the gradual death of her angry and rebellious Vietnam-marked son; fifty-year-old Alicia fights to reconnect her gay son with her newly retired husband; seventy-year-old musician Emily strives to bridge the gap with her estranged niece right at the moment her composition career starts to finally bloom; and Jenny, the thirty-year-old painter and baby of the group, questions the life she has created with her successful painter husband and tries to decide if she wants more from life.

With this unusual group of multi-generational ladies, French tells a truly rare tale about four women who accidentally come into each other's lives and in the process form an enduring friendship. It is a story of supporting one another, of looking at the grim conflicts created by cultural expectations of women, and realizing you are not alone--truly a tale of continuing hope.

Marilyn French is a pioneering feminist thinker who has published various works of literary critique, history, memoir, and fiction. For millions of readers, her bestselling classic, The Women's Room, encapsulated the themes that sparked the women's movement. She just released the novel In the Name of Friendship as well as a four-volume women's history series titled From Eve to Dawn.

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ISBN 13	9781558615212
ISBN 10	1558615210
Title	In the Name of Friendship
Author	Marilyn French
Series	Classic Feminist Writers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Year published	2006-06-15
Number of pages	250
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.