The twenty-one-million copy bestseller-available again for a new generation of readers
Originally published in 1977, The Women's Room was a novel that-for the first time-expressed the inner lives of women who left education and professional advancement behind to marry in the 1950s, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorce in the 1970s. Some became destitute, a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women's Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. Marilyn French's characters represent this wide cross section of American women, and her wry and pointed voice gives depth and emotional intensity to this timeless book that remains controversial and completely relevant.
Marilyn French (1929-2009) received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1972. She was a literary critic, and her articles and stories appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies. She taught at Hofstra, Harvard, and the College of the Holy Cross, and received a Harvard Centennial Medal.
Dorothy Allison (foreword) is the acclaimed author of the nationally bestselling novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, she lives in Northern California.
Linsey Abrams (foreword) has published three novels: Charting the Stars, Double Vision, and Our History in New York.
The twenty-one-million copy bestseller-available again for a new generation of readers
Originally published in 1977, The Women's Room was a novel that-for the first time-expressed the inner lives of women who left education and professional advancement behind to marry in the 1950s, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorce in the 1970s. Some became destitute, a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women's Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. Marilyn French's characters represent this wide cross section of American women, and her wry and pointed voice gives depth and emotional intensity to this timeless book that remains controversial and completely relevant.
Marilyn French (1929-2009) received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1972. She was a literary critic, and her articles and stories appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies. She taught at Hofstra, Harvard, and the College of the Holy Cross, and received a Harvard Centennial Medal.
Dorothy Allison (foreword) is the acclaimed author of the nationally bestselling novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, she lives in Northern California.
Linsey Abrams (foreword) has published three novels: Charting the Stars, Double Vision, and Our History in New York.
Marilyn French (1929–2009) received her doctorate from
Harvard University in 1972. She was a literary critic, and her
articles and stories appeared in a wide range of journals and
anthologies. She taught at Hofstra, Harvard, and the College of the
Holy Cross, and received a Harvard Centennial Medal.
Dorothy Allison (foreword) is the acclaimed author of the
nationally bestselling novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which
was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The recipient of
numerous awards, she lives in Northern California.
Linsey Abrams (foreword) has published three
novels: Charting the Stars, Double Vision, and Our
History in New York.
“An experience not to be missed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“I kept forgetting it was fiction . . . [French’s] women pulse with
life and individuality.”
—The New York Times
“A book with such honesty, humor, tough sad wisdom and stylistic
surety that it speaks from a place where every woman may have been
but few have ever articulated . . . Exciting . . . Far-reaching . .
. As raggedly true as life . . . I can’t think of one novel that
has affected me the way The Women’s Room has!”
—The Boston Globe
“An important fictional account of a whole generation of women . .
. Arresting, very real and poignant.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“I know these women. I’ve held their hands when their marriages
fell apart and cried in their arms when mine did. . . . The
characters in The Women’s Room are my friends and I love them
immeasurably. The book accomplishes for my generation what Doris
Lessing’s The Golden Notebook did for hers.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“The kind of book that changes lives.”
—Fay Weldon
“[The Women’s Room] seized me by my preconceptions and I kept
struggling and arguing with its premises. ‘Men can’t be that bad,’
I kept wanting to shout at the narrator. ‘There must be room for
accommodation between the sexes that you’ve somehow overlooked.’
And the damnable thing is, she’s right.”
—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
“Today’s Desperate Housewives eat your heart out! This is the
original and still the best, a page-turner that makes you
think.”
—Kate Mosse, bestselling author of Labyrinth
“Courageous . . . honest . . . powerful. A book you’d like to give
to twenty women (and perhaps anonymously, twenty men).”
—Chicago Tribune
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