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Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton .
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
The Friendly Persuasion (1945) is West's best-known work. The New York Times book reviewer Orville Prescott called it "as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches... There have been plenty of louder and more insistent books this year, but few as sure and mellow as The Friendly Persuasion ...
“He’s a 10,” the leading lady enthuses to an older woman about a young man she fancies in this latest screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel — and if that line doesn’t throw ...
Books about persuasion, an umbrella term for influence. Persuasion can influence a person's beliefs , attitudes , intentions , motivations , or behaviours . Subcategories
Midmarch Arts Press (New York, US, 1975–2018) publishers of Women Arts News (1975–1998) and list of Women in the Arts books [41] Modjaji Books (Cape Town, South Africa, 2007–present) [42] [2] Monsters In My Head Press publishers of The WorryWoo Series, Jersey City NJ Established in 2007. WorryWoos.coms [2] Mother's Milk Books [2]
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