- Fiction, Literature, Conflict of generations, Family
The antics of a group of women in a small town where they were expected to raise babies, not Cain. The story is recounted by a mother to a daughter, the daughter thinking she is so much better because she got out of that town and is now a theater producer. The moral: mothers too were once rebels.
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Classical in form, character-led, effortless and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Rebecca Wells
- First published
- May 7, 1997
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- BCA, Doubleday, Large Print Press
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780060193454
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