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2011 Longlist

A Short History of Women

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A Short History of Women chronicles five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel traces the echoes of her choice in the stories of her descendants—a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother’s infamy; a granddaughter who chooses a conventional path, only to find herself disillusioned; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of post-9/11 Manhattan.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Kate
Walbert

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

A multigenerational tale that with depth, complexity and abundant feeling touches on the challenges women faced throughout the 20th century.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner

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