| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 415 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
First edition, with misspelling in the running title on p. 215, "Huspand" and p. 294, line 5, "efiort." Russo p. 74-77; misspelling on p. 294 not listed in any bibliography |
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Preamble and links between stories were written for the book; the individual stories were previously published in various periodicals. For a list of periodicals and dates, see Russo p. 75-77. |
| Summary |
The book is mostly concerned with two families; the Cromwell and the Dodge families, but there are other characters to the book also. Tarkington concentrates on the two mothers of those families and their daughters. The setting is a pleasant suburb, early 20th century in a moderately sized town where gossip is ever present. We look at the crises that beset the parents -- and their fickle daughters, in issues regarding love, boyfriends, crushes that seem so important at the time but in the end become faded memories. The book looks at a way of life that seems a part of the distant past, where husbands/fathers were the sole breadwinners, where the mothers and their daughters never seemed to have jobs, but had plenty of time to attend to the issues that obsessed their lives -- love affairs/crushes, neighbors' and friends' infidelities and so on. Where "well meant" gossip could backfire on the person spreading it. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Suburban life -- Fiction.
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Indiana -- Fiction.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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Femmes (CaQQLa)201-0068366 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
(CaQQLa)201-0377299
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Couples mariés (CaQQLa)201-0405212 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
(CaQQLa)201-0377299
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Vie de la banlieue (CaQQLa)201-0019022 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
(CaQQLa)201-0377299
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Indiana (CaQQLa)201-0113880 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
(CaQQLa)201-0377299
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Roman américain -- 20e siècle. (CaQQLa)201-0076014
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Women (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Suburban life (OCoLC)fst01136930
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Married people (OCoLC)fst01010656
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Indiana https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbCKVkqV8TwrFTJTvrrMP (OCoLC)fst01204604
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| Genre/Form |
Fictional Work (DNLM)D022922
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Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Fiction.
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Romans. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Women. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1925 (OCoLC)579791158 |
| ISBN |
0836940644 |
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9780836940640 |
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