PDF Ebook Other Women, by Lisa Alther
Right here, we have countless e-book Other Women, By Lisa Alther as well as collections to check out. We additionally serve variant types as well as type of guides to look. The fun book, fiction, history, novel, scientific research, and other sorts of publications are readily available right here. As this Other Women, By Lisa Alther, it turneds into one of the favored e-book Other Women, By Lisa Alther collections that we have. This is why you are in the best site to see the outstanding books to possess.
Other Women, by Lisa Alther
PDF Ebook Other Women, by Lisa Alther
Spend your time even for simply few mins to check out an e-book Other Women, By Lisa Alther Reviewing a publication will certainly never ever decrease and also lose your time to be pointless. Checking out, for some folks come to be a need that is to do daily such as investing time for consuming. Now, exactly what regarding you? Do you want to read a publication? Now, we will certainly show you a brand-new book qualified Other Women, By Lisa Alther that can be a brand-new method to check out the understanding. When reviewing this book, you can obtain one point to consistently remember in every reading time, even detailed.
But, just what's your matter not as well enjoyed reading Other Women, By Lisa Alther It is a great activity that will always provide terrific advantages. Why you become so odd of it? Several points can be affordable why individuals don't like to check out Other Women, By Lisa Alther It can be the monotonous activities, guide Other Women, By Lisa Alther compilations to review, also lazy to bring nooks everywhere. Today, for this Other Women, By Lisa Alther, you will certainly begin to love reading. Why? Do you recognize why? Read this web page by finished.
Beginning with seeing this website, you have aimed to start loving reading a publication Other Women, By Lisa Alther This is specialized site that offer hundreds compilations of books Other Women, By Lisa Alther from whole lots resources. So, you won't be burnt out anymore to select the book. Besides, if you additionally have no time at all to browse guide Other Women, By Lisa Alther, just sit when you're in office as well as open up the browser. You can discover this Other Women, By Lisa Alther inn this web site by connecting to the web.
Obtain the link to download this Other Women, By Lisa Alther as well as begin downloading and install. You can want the download soft data of guide Other Women, By Lisa Alther by undergoing other activities. And that's all done. Currently, your resort to check out a book is not consistently taking and carrying guide Other Women, By Lisa Alther all over you go. You could conserve the soft data in your gadget that will certainly never be far away and also read it as you like. It is like reviewing story tale from your gizmo after that. Now, begin to love reading Other Women, By Lisa Alther and also obtain your new life!
Caroline is a giver—as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders—but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases in the ER leave Caroline emotionally paralyzed and her relationship with her partner, Diane, breaks down, she knows its time to take a look at her life and do something she’d never imagined: go to therapy. Her therapist, Hannah, knows a thing or two about sacrifice and pain. A former war bride, Hannah may live a seemingly cozy domestic life with her beloved husband and two grown children, but she can’t forget her own harrowing past. As she and Caroline work together, each comes to understand and admire the resilient woman sitting before her. A poignant look at the human need for acceptance, Other Women is a thoughtful novel about how a life examined is worth living. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lisa Alther, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
- Sales Rank: #427613 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-12-14
- Released on: 2010-12-14
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“Alther's genius as a novelist is her ability to capture and juxtapose the odd combinations of personality, gender, class, culture, family life, and chance that shape human destinies . . . Artfully counterpointing the feelings of client and therapist, Alther demonstrates the terror and comfort generated by the psychotherapeutic process.” —San Francisco Chronicle
From the Inside Flap
In her first novel, KINFLICKS, published in 1976, Lisa Alther gave us an icon for the sixties and seventies -- a young woman furiously and hilariously carving out her life amid the tumult of the times. Her second novel, ORIGINAL SINS, charted the complex passage from childhood to adulthood by exploring the volatile dynamics in a group of friends. Now, in OTHER WOMEN, the main characters have grown up -- but they've survived childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood only to find that maturity presents the biggest problems yet. And in their story, Lisa Alther hits her stride, giving us an exuberant, warm, funny, moving, altogether captivating novel as she takes us into the lives and hearts and minds of two wonderfully compelling and appealing women. All her life, Caroline Kelly has been a member of the helping professions -- she learned the "trade" and its code of sacrifice from her social-working parents at an early age. But suddenly, at thirty-five, she is finding herself in need of help In the past, she's used every bromide she could find or invent: marriage and motherhood; monogamy, bigamy, and polygamy; consumerism, feminism, and God; sex, work alcohol, drugs, and true love. Each enchanted for a time, but none seemed to do the job permanently -- the darkness always came creeping back. Now it seems to be back with a vengeance (even nature has begun to seem oddly malevolent; the sick puppy she found and took to the vet turned out to be a rabid fox), and the only thing left? Psychotherapy. Not that she takes to the idea easily! Caroline, who has dedicated her life to the welfare of others; Caroline, the strong, the self-reliant, the all-for-the-common-good daughter of all-for-the-common-good parents; Caroline giving in, giving up, giving herself over to the ministrations of another? Unthinkable. Until now. Now, when her (female) lover with whom she shares a home wants to end their relationship (but not their cohabitation); now, when the sights in the emergency room, where she's a nurse, move her not to action but to paralyzing horror; now, when even the fact of her two virtually fatherless children (whom she adores) doesn't prevent her from thinking longingly of the emergency suicide pills she keeps at the back of her closet. And so, with angry resistance in her eyes (she doesn't want the therapist to think she actually needs help), she thrusts herself into the office of a woman who, Caroline will quickly discover, is as strong, as stubborn, as determined -- and as giving -- as she herself. Hannah Burke, confident and successful in her productive middle years, chose her profession partly to assure herself a situation in which she could be in control, in which she could maintain the illusion that nothing would take her by surprise again, at least not in the ways she'd been taken by surprise in the past: by her parents' abandonment of her, by the loss of love in her first marriage, and the devastating loss of two children in her second. But Caroline does take her by surprise: pulled along by the force of Caroline's hunger for understanding, Hannah is moved, almost unwittingly, to examine the self she has worked for years to put aside -- the self that has experienced all the loss and guilt and terror she confronts every day in her patients but refuses to confront again in herself. And so Caroline and Hannah become both foil and mirror to each other -- alternately provoking each other, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes with powerful intent. The story of Caroline's journey through therapy, of Hannah's journey back through herself, and of these two women's relationship -- growing from animosity and reluctance to trust and affection -- unfolds with immense humor and sympathy and feeling. We see the often raucous events of Caroline's life as she ferrets out the angels and demons of her past, confronting (in her mind and in fact) her parents, her ex-husband, her lovers, and herself. We see how Hannah has carved her "peaceful old age" out of tragedy and joy, and the hard-earned ability to learn from both. And we see how each of them -- helped by the other -- bravely allows herself to break down, and through, her stalwart defenses so that she may finally grow up.
About the Author
Lisa Alther is the bestselling author of five novels, among them the critically acclaimed Kinflicks, and a family memoir, Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree. She was born in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1944, one of five children in a close-knit family influenced by both its Southern and “Yankee” roots. After attending Wellesley College and working in book publishing, she moved to Vermont, where she began to write and raise her daughter. Alther currently divides her time among Tennessee, Vermont, and New York City.
Most helpful customer reviews
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
I couldn't put it down
By A Customer
One of the best books I have read in a while. I just couldn't put it down until I had finished it, and then I was sad that it was over. This book has everything: Humor, compassion, wisdom, insight, and great characters. It makes you think deeply about your own life and your relationships. The slow transformation of the main character Caroline is fascinating as she goes through therapy and takes a critical look at herself and her past. I have bought copies for all my friends to read and they all liked it just as much. If you tend to get depressed during the winter months, read this book as it may not only cheer you up but may also give you a fresh new perspective on your life.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Easily the best book I've ever read, and I've read thousands
By Christy K
I love this book. I've read it numerous times over the years, yet the message is still relevant. The characters are so real, they feel like old friends. The humor is still fresh, and it never fails to have a "theraputic" effect on me. I highly recommend this book for any woman, but especially for any woman over the age of 21.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Radiates gloom and despondency
By J C E Hitchcock
After reading her first two brilliant novels, "Kinflicks" and "Original Sins", I found myself wondering why Lisa Alther is not more highly regarded by the American literary establishment; several of her books are currently out of print. Perhaps the fact that she is a woman may have something to do with it; most of America's current literary lions (Updike, Irving, Roth, etc.) are male, whereas other talented female writers (Alison Lurie being a good example) are also neglected.
Having now read Alther's third novel "Other Women" I can now understand something of the reason for the decline in her reputation, because it does not come close to living up to the promise of her first two books. The book is set in New England; unlike its two predecessors it makes no reference to Alther's own Southern heritage. References to events such as the Jonestown massacre and the Sino-Vietnamese border war date the action to the winter and spring of 1978-79, although there are occasional slips. Caroline's children, for example, would not at that date have been able to inform her about the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", as that movie was not released until 1981. (The book was written in 1984, some years after the events it describes).
The main character is Caroline Kelly, a 35 year old nurse. Caroline is an extreme pessimist, caught in an ideological misery trap. She believes that life- her own life and human life in general- is pointless and miserable and that she, and everyone else, is doomed to an existence of unhappiness and suffering. She has tried what Alther calls "all the standard bromides", including marriage, true love, communism, feminism, God, sex, work, alcohol and drugs, but each "enchanted for a while, but ultimately failed to stave off the despair".
At the beginning of the novel Caroline sees herself as being left with only two options- psychotherapy or suicide. The book tells the story of Caroline's course of treatment with her therapist, Hannah Burke, and as this progresses we learn something of her past. She is a divorcee, having left her doctor husband Jackson for a left-wing radical named David Michael, but this affair proved to be short-lived. She is currently in a lesbian relationship with a colleague, Diana, but this is also proving unsatisfactory; although the two women still live under the same roof, the sexual side of the relationship has all but come to an end and Diana is pursuing another, younger, girl. Like Ginny and some of Alther's other female characters, Caroline is bisexual; indeed, Alther seems to take the line that all people, or at least all women, are essentially bisexual, effectively leaving them free to choose their own sexuality. (A line that will not endear her to many in the gay community).
The aim of Hannah's therapy is to enable Caroline to take control of her life by coming to terms with her past. Caroline was the child of well-to-do, middle-class parents, politically and socially liberal but remote authority-figures, unable to cater for their children's emotional needs. The main result of their liberalism has been to inculcate their daughter with ineradicable guilt feelings about her privileged upbringing. Hannah sees Caroline's subsequent life of falling into a predictable pattern (by the end of the novel this has become capitalised as The Pattern) of clinging to substitute mother or father-figures and then being rejected by them, although it seemed to me that Hannah's psycho-analytic theories were not always borne out by the facts of Caroline's life. (For example, it was Caroline who left Jackson, not vice versa, largely because she could not accept that the needs of his patients might sometimes have to come before her own. She also walked out on David Michael, although with greater justification given that he was a serial womaniser). The book ends, according to the blurb on the back of my edition, with Caroline "gradually realising that she is being healed", although as she was still actively contemplating suicide in the penultimate chapter this healing is obviously a slow process.
Alther's first two novels have serious themes, but they are often very funny, and she is capable of writing with a brilliant, satirical wit. In "Other Women", however, there is very little wit or humour; the tone is deeply serious throughout, although some of the characters cry out to be satirised. The Lisa Alther of "Kinflicks" would have had great fun at the expense of David Michael, the sort of bourgeois fun-revolutionary who has taken up left-wing politics in order to increase his chances of scoring with women, or of Caroline's earnest, do-gooding parents. The main problem with the book is that Caroline is so difficult to like. In "Kinflicks" Alther had created, in Ginny Babcock, one of the most likeable heroines in modern literature- often infuriating, often wrongheaded, always fascinating. It is difficult to believe that the depressing figure of Caroline could have had the same creator. Reading the book was like spending several hours in the company of an acquaintance one would much rather avoid, not because they are wicked or malicious but because they positively radiate gloom and despondency.
Alther made something of a return to form with her fourth novel, "Bedrock", an amusing satirical look at New England small town life. The main character in that book, Clea Shawn, is an older (but not necessarily wiser) version of Ginny Babcock, although her best friend Elke is clearly an older version of Caroline. I have not read Alther's most recent novel, "Five Minutes in Heaven", but of her first four "Other Women" is by far the weakest.
Other Women, by Lisa Alther PDF
Other Women, by Lisa Alther EPub
Other Women, by Lisa Alther Doc
Other Women, by Lisa Alther iBooks
Other Women, by Lisa Alther rtf
Other Women, by Lisa Alther Mobipocket
Other Women, by Lisa Alther Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar