Viac o knihe
Ferociously paced, "Terminal Velocity" delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption.
Nákup knihy
Terminal Velocity, Blanche Mccrary Boyd
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 1998
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- Terminal Velocity
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Blanche Mccrary Boyd
- Vydavateľ
- Vintage
- Rok vydania
- 1998
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 0679750320
- ISBN13
- 9780679750321
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Vzťahy, 20. storočie, Feminizmus, Sociálne problémy
- Hodnotenie
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotácia
- Ferociously paced, "Terminal Velocity" delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption.