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A short history of women a novel

Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters.

Main Author: Walbert, Kate, 1961-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2009.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Women > Fiction.
Generations > Fiction.
Summary: Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters.
Physical Description: ix, 239 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781416594987
1416594981
9781416594994 (pbk.)
141659499X (pbk.)
Author Notes: Kate Walbert has published fiction and articles in the Paris Review, DoubleTake, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, she is the author of "Where She Went," a short story collection. Her most recent novel is called A Short History of Women.

Walbert teaches writing at Yale University and lives in New York City and Branford, Connecticut.

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