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Loading... Folly: A Novel (original 1992; edition 1994)by Susan Minot
Work InformationFolly by Susan Minot (1992)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Slow and steady the reader watches Lilian as Lilian, herself, watches her life and her loves---her confusions and mistakes, wondering how she will feel about her life as she lives it now and in the future. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (2896)
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HTML: An upper-class Boston woman struggles through a life constrained by duty in this "dazzling" historical novel by a prize-winning author (Chicago Tribune). Born into an affluent New England family at the turn of the twentieth century, Lillian Eliot engages in the coming-of-age rituals traditional of her social status. But when she meets Walter Vail, a charming and spontaneous New Yorker, her world is opened to new possibilities. As the Great War erupts, Walter leaves for Europe and marries another woman, and Lillian marries Gilbert Finch, an innocuous bachelor within her social circle. As the years pass, Lillian acquiesces to a life devoid of passion until, one day, Walter returns. In the tradition of Edith Wharton and E.M. Forster, Susan Minot brings to vivid life the world of the early twentieth century and the story of a woman searching for love despite society's constraints.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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