Hot Flashes
by Barbara Raskin
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New York Times Bestseller: This “landmark women’s novel” about female friendship and women’s lib is “something akin to Mary McCarthy’s The Group” (People).Diana Sargeant is a menopausal anthropology professor whose hot flashes often produce insights into life, love, and what it means to be a woman. Diana belongs to a generation of A-list females: well-educated jet-setters who overcame their fear of flying in the fifties, became leftist protestors in the sixties, and were show more glamorous seductresses on birth control in the seventies. But in the eighties, they’re middle-aged matrons who are afraid of their own mortality and must come to terms with the fact that even though they obtained everything they desired, they’re still unfulfilled.
When Diana’s close friend Sukie Amram suffers a fatal brain hemorrhage, the professor rushes to Washington, DC, to mourn and commemorate the woman she so loved. There, she reunites with her lifelong pals: flashy magazine writer Joanne Ireland and divorced English teacher Elaine Cantor. The three soon discover Sukie’s journal, which details her battle with despair after her husband abandoned her for a younger lover. As they read through the details of Sukie’s postdivorce anguish, the friends revisit difficult moments in their own pasts and discover themselves anew.
Called “a feminist version of The Big Chill” by the Washington Post, Hot Flashes is an irreverent, witty, and emotionally engaging novel about four intelligent, trailblazing women that provides a compelling, honest look at female fears and desire during the late twentieth century.
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I adore this book. To read once or read again is often the question. I read this book over again, sometimes seeking out truths about frienships, aging, and families. This book has the right blend of humor, story telling and lessons to be taken.
good novel 4 women in 40s coming together 4 death of woman, problems retrospective of their lives - good
On the occasion of Sukie's death, Diana, Elaine, Joanne, and other members of society's new elite gather to mourn, to relive their past together, and to confront their middle-age desires
On the occasion of Sukie's death, Diana, Elaine, Joanne, and other members of society's new elite gather to mourn, to relive their past together, and to confront their middle-age desires
After 100 pages I decided that I had wasted enough time on this.
Opvliegingen is dé roman over de generatie vrouwen die geboren zijn begin jaren 40. In de welvarende jaren 50 gingen ze naar de middelbare school toen 'populariteit' de mate van sukses in het leven bepaalde. Na school trouwden deze vrouwen jong en ontwikkelden zich samen met hun kinderen tijdens de sociaal-kulturele revolutie van de jaren 60. Hun leven kreeg min of meer vrouw door de strijd voor de burgerrechten, het milieu en tenslotte het feminisme. In de jaren 70 vonden deze vrouwn identiteit, vrijheid en onafhankelijkheid. Velen zijn in die periode gescheiden, moesten na depressies aan een nieuwe loopbaan beginnen en aan nieuwe relaties waardoor ze van slachtoffers winnaars werden. In het begin van de jaren 80 waren ze 50 en show more bereikten ze de top van hun kunnen. show less
Jan 27, 2010Dutch
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