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An Unnecessary Woman is a 2014 novel by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine. The book was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] The novel focuses on the experiences of an isolated 72-year-old widow, Aaliya Saleh, who is a shut-in in Beirut. She reads widely and deeply, translates favorite novels, and has a rich inner ...
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
The text specifically examines Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson.. In the work, Gilbert and Gubar examine the notion that women writers of the nineteenth century were confined in their writing to make their female characters either embody the "angel" or the "monster", a struggle which they ...
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
The book sold more than 10 million copies and was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1974. [6] Grounded in evangelical Christianity , it taught that "It's only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him," and that " A Total Woman caters to her ...
Lives of Girls and Women is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Canadian author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although described and marketed as a novel, in form it resembles a collection of interlinked short stories, with discrete chapters narrated by the main character, Del Jordan.
Women of Genesis is a series of novels begun in 2000 by Orson Scott Card. The novels in this series are centred on the wives of the Biblical Patriarchs of the Book of Genesis . As of December 2024, three books have been published, and the fourth and fifth books in the series are currently listed as works in progress on Card's website.
Emmanuelle is immediately attracted to the slender, red-headed Bee, and when the two women meet later by chance on the streets of Bangkok she takes the opportunity to invite Bee home with her. Emmanuelle seduces her and the two women make love, first in the shower and then in Emmanuelle's bed.