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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 ...
An Inconvenient Woman is a 1990 novel by Dominick Dunne. Its plot centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles high society , and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenient woman of the title.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the title of a detective novel by English writer P. D. James and of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel. It was published by Faber and Faber in the UK [ 1 ] in 1972 and by Charles Scribner's Sons in the US.
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, published in 2002, is a collection of previously unpublished transcripts of seminars, talks, and question-and-answer sessions conducted by Noam Chomsky from 1989 to 1999. [2] [3] The transcripts were compiled and edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel.
The book is a first-person narrative in which Mildred Lathbury records the humdrum details of her everyday life in post-war London near the start of the 1950s. Perpetually self-deprecating, but with the sharpest wit, Mildred is a clergyman's daughter who is now just over thirty and lives in "a shabby part…very much the 'wrong' side of Victoria Station".
Women are doing a lot more non-promotable work than men, being asked to take on work that doesn’t typically lead to a career advancement or higher pay. Book: Women do more ‘non-promotable work ...
The review concludes that Book Woman is "A unique story about Appalachia and the healing power of the written word." [ 17 ] Publishers Weekly called the book a "gem of a historical", and though the review notes that the ending seems abrupt, "and some historical information feels clumsily inserted, readers will adore the memorable Cussy and ...