Meeting at Sarah Lawrence College, four young women--the flamboyant Delphine, talented Daisy, practical Gina, and gentle Franca--pursue dreams of independence and ambition that force them to make sacrifices in later years. Reprint.

Women Like Us

Abeel, Erica

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

Only When I Laugh

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ballantine Books

Women Like Us traces the lives of four women from their undergraduate days at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1950s through the colorful and varied histories of their boyfriends, jobs, husbands, children, divorces, friendships, rivalries, failures, and successes to the present. It is a novel brimming with the lives of a group of women caught between two generations: too restless for the pieties of the fifties, too early for the revolution of the sixties. In rejecting Ben for the beautiful but feckless Gerrit, Daisy establishes a pattern of "all for love" that, despite her talent and intelligence, will haunt her life. Gina, the class square, focuses on her career rather than love. Franca's marriage collapses under the weight of children and her husband's experimentation with open marriage. Delphine, the leader of the clique, astonishes all by marrying before her graduation. Women Like Us captures the lives of a generation of women who at thirty were overtaken by the feminist revolution, when all the rules changed, and who have been running to catch up ever since. In the tradition of Marilyn French, Erica Jong, Judith Rossner, and Gail Godwin, Erica Abeel has written an unforgettable story; in it, every woman is sure to recognize something of her own life.

United States

Ticknor & Fields

I'll call you tomorrow, and other lies between men and women

Morrow

(See our photo) Priced not clipped; In dustjacket, boards and pages VG/VG; binding tight, pages clean (tanning); may have light scuffs and/or mild shelf wear.

Only when I laugh

W. Morrow

Three college friends from the 50s blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These “wild girls” pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite northeastern college, to Paris with Allen Ginsberg, to New York’s avant-garde scene in the early sixties, to a mansion in Newport, to the slopes of Zermatt, to Long Island’s Gold Coast, as it celebrates the nimbleness and vitality of women who defied an entire culture to forge their own journey. "Wild Girls is a novel about a few women rebels who came of age in the 50s with the Beats in Paris, Allen Ginsberg (when he was still sleeping with girls), and a Yoko Ono-based character in early 60s New York. More importantly, Erica Abeel IS a 'Wild Girl'--she lived the life, these are her friends, and this is an insider's peek into that world."—Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Praise for Abeel's Women Like Us: "Smart, snappy, and compulsively readable ... Written with wit and perception."—Publishers Weekly "An old-fashioned good read."—New York Times Book Review

Wild Girls: A Novel

Humor & Satire

Trp: The University Press Of Shsu

Madeleine Shaye has a successful dual career as a concert pianist and TV arts correspondent, a great relationship with her grown daughter, and a love affair that is the envy of friends. She believes she has all the luck. But her blissful life suddenly unravels in this genre-bending novel about a mysterious love with two faces, a shocking betrayal, and the passion to reclaim old dreams.

Conscience Point

Unbridled Books

Her current novel The Commune is a comic satire and roman a clef that takes us inside the Hamptons commune populated by the newly liberated women present at the creation of the seminal 1970 Women's March for Equality. The Commune's pioneering feminists can talk the talk, but find themselves whipsawed between the bold new ideals of the women's movement and the powerful tug of the past - and therein lies drama.

The Commune

Adelaide Books LLC

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Women Like Us

Only When I Laugh

Women Like Us

I'll call you tomorrow, and other lies between men and women

Only when I laugh

Wild Girls: A Novel

Conscience Point

The Commune