Title : My Heroines - Douglas Kennedy - Book

Summary :

Portraits of women in search of freedom in an America dominated by the cult of success

The pursuit of happiness - A Dangerous Relationship - The Discreet Charms of Married Life
Their names are Sara, Sally, Hannah. These energetic and strong-willed women are simply looking for happiness, but fate decides otherwise. And they will fight, struggle to escape the headwinds that carry them away: against the social and ideological burdens of McCarthyism for one, to free themselves from an unsatisfying life and a husband who turns out to be perverse for another, to escape a past that resurfaces for the third. With his immense talent as a storyteller, Douglas Kennedy manages to penetrate the hearts of women through the portraits of these heroines in search of freedom in a moralizing and stifling America dominated by the cult of success.

"That's what a novel is: love at first sight, dilemmas, regrets – and the near certainty that happiness is always conjugated in the conditional or imperfect tense. [...] Kennedy does what he wants with his reader. How good it is, sometimes, to let yourself be led by the nose." Éric Neuhoff - Le Figaro

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