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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-11-1 Pages: 328 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt During World War I. seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures ajob at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own. escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthywidower twice her age. Determined to find love on her own terms. she is intoxicated by her newfound freedom and the patriotic fervorof the day. That is. until a soldier reports her as his last sexualcontact. sweeping her up in the governments wartime crusadeagainst venereal disease. Quarantined in a detention center. Friedafinds in the Homes confines a group of brash. unforgettable womenwho help her see the way to a new kind of independence. CharityGirl is based on a little-known chapter in American history thatsaw fifteen thousand women across the nation incarcerated LikeWhen the Emperor Was Divine. Lowenthals poig...
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"Lively and illuminating . . . marr[ies] the facts of history with the details that make a fictional life come alive."--Anita Shreve The Washington Post
"Even while capturing the great sweep of the period, Charity Girl celebrates most the depth of the characters' lives."--Matthew PearlAbout the Author
MICHAEL LOWENTHAL is the author of the acclaimed novels Charity Girl, Avoidance, and The Same Embrace. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and many other publications. He teaches writing at Boston College and Lesely University. Charity Girl was inspired by a line in Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, in which she likens the incarceration of American women during World War I to the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Lowenthal says, "The latter historical episode I had, of course, heard about, but not the first . . . I immediately had two thoughts: (1) how awful, and (2) what a great basis for a novel."
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0618919783
- ISBN 13 9780618919789
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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