The Sheltered Life
by Ellen Glasgow
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Read in June, 2007
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Great story [publ. 1932] portraying growing up in the Old South [Richmond, Virginia] before WW II. For a woman, why being beautiful was almost everything, and for everyone, how crucial keeping up appearances was, more important than anything else.
I like Glasgow's term for this kind of pretending, or insincerity: "evasive idealism".
Glasgow shows us how this works through the eyes of a 9 year old girl and her 79 year old grandfather. It explains a lot!
I like Glasgow's term for this kind of pretending, or insincerity: "evasive idealism".
Glasgow shows us how this works through the eyes of a 9 year old girl and her 79 year old grandfather. It explains a lot!
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Read in October, 2006
I probably should have found this more interesting than I did, considering it's set in Richmond, but I had a very difficult time getting into this book. It had all the plot elements of a "juicy" story, but the writing failed to engage.
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