Before the war
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Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebeforewar0000weld_d0p0
- ISBN-10125012123X
- ISBN-139781250121233
- AmazonB01KT7F0DU
- Library of Congress Control Number2016044921
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number947146373
- Better World Books9781250121233
- Open LibraryOL27228420M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6073.E374 B4 2017
- LCCPR6073.E374B4 2017
Description
"1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate, along with that of London between World War I and World War II. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers, and aristocrats clinging onto the past. Inventive, warm, playful, and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, Before the War is a spellbinding novel from one of the best writers of our time"--
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