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  <default_description>1924. The Home Maker is as relevant today as when it first appeared. It tells the story of Evangeline Knapp, the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, whose husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed: Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife, parents and children, are both fascinating and poignant. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mom may keep the cleanest house in town but, in doing so, she makes her whole family and herself miserable. Dad is a poet/dreamer, completely unsuited for his office job. All seems lost until an Event happens which causes the roles to reverse.  <br/><br/>Fisher (a champion of the Montessori method...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62558229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book rather disturbed me because it dealt with, among other things, the possibility that not all women are by nature maternal.  Written in 1924, that premise was even harder to accept than it might be today.<br/><br/>The husband/father in this story states that the wife/mother &quot;...had pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61430534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eighty-five years ago this book was scandalous. Today, the Home-maker is still a poignant critique of gender-roles and social expectations. Woman earn more than men, men stay home with the baby, but there is still the pervading sense that both are betraying who they were born to be. I remember being...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48402118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to keep checking on the year in which this book was written; it's progressive by today's standards.  I tore through this book in two sittings, it's so engaging. <br/><br/>There's the husband (former English major) forced to be an accountant so he can get married and support a household, not th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51867385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book provides a very interesting look at the feminist revolutionary views of family and gender roles in the 1920s while telling a compelling story that continues to feel fresh and relevant today.  At first, the Knapps are a traditional family with Mrs. Knapp staying home and raising the three ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45272279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel opens with Mrs. Knapp preparing an ordinary dinner for her family, but it reads like an ulcer-inducing horror story because her soul is so tortured by the job of homemaker. Meanwhile, poetry-loving Mr. Knapp is similarly tortured by having to be the breadwinner. Fortunately, however, he i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25824829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book.  The idea that the author is putting forward is wrong (see proclamation on the family), however there is much to think about in reading this.  Her idea is that it is irrelevant who is in the home to care for the children and who is providing for the family, as long as it is a paren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9417032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, which is--as the summary says--quite relevant today, despite the fact that it was written in 1924. Some of the language is a bit quaint, but it's a charming book. And it supports a point I've long been making--no one really knows what goes on in a marriage/relationship/fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60651326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book much more than I thought I would. I think I was worried it was going to turn out like Ethan Frome. Fear not -- it didn't. I liked that even though poor Evangeline was such a household bully, everyone liked her anyway. I was a little sad [spoiler:] that the only way for the happy en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56994951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first painful to read (perhaps because of the minor elements of myself I saw in Eva), this turned into a really lovely story about finding the right role in family life.  The parts from the father's point of view were particularly fascinating, especially as he got to know the children and feel a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60792538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a charming book! For one, it was ahead of its time--depicting a family in which the woman much more enjoyed being in the workforce, the man better at being a stay-at-home Dad. Fisher was a Vermont writer and wrote extensively about Montessori school and childrearing. She didn't see &quot;The Ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34239771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really surprised by this book, enjoyed even the &quot;revolutionary&quot; philosophy current in it's day and wished it didn't have to end.  Living with Lester's growing understanding of the children was delightful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting novel (written in 1924) about a husband and wife whose traditional roles are reversed due to a tragic accident.  It will definitely make you think about your feelings towards these roles.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brought out all sorts of emotions.  The ending says it all.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written in the 1920s about a couple who are forced to reverse roles - mom has to go to work and the dad stay home.  I can't think of many other books I've read as respectful of the importance of the role of parent and home-maker, while also respectful of skills best put to use other pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33608309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting look at gender roles in the 1920s.  I was captivated by the story and the way the family developed over the course of the book.  It made me question motherhood, the roles of 'mother' and 'father' and how much society affects our choices.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really great book. Read it in Women in Lit. my freshman year and it is a fantastic novel about a family and their trials. It is one of the earliest written books I've ever read, that dealt with men and women wanting something other then what is expected of them.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved loved loved the book!  The first section was frustrating because I recognized a bit too much of myself in it - but as the story progressed, there are some fabulous twists.  Wonderful commentary on marriage and childrearing - an absolute must read! ]]></body>
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