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Availability:In StockContributor:Olive Higgins ProutySeries:Femmes Fatales: Women Write PulpPublish date:2004-10-01Pages:284
Language:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558614765ISBN-10:1558614761UPC:9781558614765Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Women SleuthsSize:7.40 x 4.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCVK2X962P

Now, Voyager - The Classic Novel Behind the Iconic Film

That iconic American melodrama that inspired the 1943 cult classic film starring Bette Davis.

"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.

About the Femmes Fatales Series

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558614765ISBN-10:1558614761UPC:9781558614765Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Women SleuthsSize:7.40 x 4.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCVK2X962P

Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including Stella Dallas (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial. A graduate of Smith College, Prouty endowed a writer's scholarship at Smith that was received by Sylvia Plath, who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly in The Bell Jar.

Publisher: Feminist Press

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