Now, Voyager (Femmes Fatales)
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- Synopsis
- The iconic American melodrama that inspired the 1943 cult classic film starring Bette Davis. &“Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated Cinderella.&” —Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author &“Don&’t let&’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!&” The film Now, Voyager concludes with these famous words, which reaffirmed Bette Davis&’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few fans of this rich story know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty&’s 1941 novel provides a rich, complex portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Over half a century later, it still offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women&’s agency. Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Dowdy, repressed, and pushing forty, Charlotte finds salvation in the unlikely form of a nervous breakdown, placing her at a sanitarium, where she undergoes treatment to rebuild her ravaged self-esteem and uncover her true intelligence and charm.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women&’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era.&“Like the film it inspired, Olive Higgins Prouty&’s Now, Voyager is as striking for the conventions it bucks as for the ones it embraces: a vivid reminder of a time when people crossed the ocean in liners and wore hats, and a hymn to an American ideal of social, moral, and emotional independence.&” —David Leavitt, author of Shelter in Place
- Copyright:
- 1969
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 286 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781558616332
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781558614765
- Publisher:
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Date of Addition:
- 01/08/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Olive Higgins Prouty
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Romance, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.