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Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love--orever--with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the forties: going to law school. Newfoundland during the wartime forties was hardly Rosie the Riveter Country. So, when Angie loses her sailor lover and marries the boy next door--who turns out to be a sexual sadist--she fears there is no way out. She turns to her friend Dorothy, a woman lawyer at a time when such aspirations seemed impossible. But it's what happens after that, in a world where feminism did not exist, that's surprising--and unsettling. This novel is a tale of loss, female friendship, and of a time long past, when being a woman had few advantages, and many disadvantages. Filled with tragedy, magic realism, and humour, this novel paints a picture of women's lives in the forties, and of the prevailing and enduring power of female friendship.
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My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett, Suzanne Hillier
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
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- Titel
- My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Suzanne Hillier
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1771338636
- ISBN13
- 9781771338639
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik
- Bewertung
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- Beschreibung
- Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love--orever--with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the forties: going to law school. Newfoundland during the wartime forties was hardly Rosie the Riveter Country. So, when Angie loses her sailor lover and marries the boy next door--who turns out to be a sexual sadist--she fears there is no way out. She turns to her friend Dorothy, a woman lawyer at a time when such aspirations seemed impossible. But it's what happens after that, in a world where feminism did not exist, that's surprising--and unsettling. This novel is a tale of loss, female friendship, and of a time long past, when being a woman had few advantages, and many disadvantages. Filled with tragedy, magic realism, and humour, this novel paints a picture of women's lives in the forties, and of the prevailing and enduring power of female friendship.