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The Professor's Daughter
Louisa Rutledge, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Harvard professor, picks up a stranger on Boston Common and, after a crude coupling in her apartment, throws herself out of her window. She survives and returns to the home of her parents in Cambridge, Mass. – her father a rich, east-coast patrician, descended from a signatory of the Declaration of Independence; her mother the alcoholic mistress of a powerful senator.
After this preamble, the novel tells the story of the Rutledge family – how Louisa’s parents were drawn into Democratic politics with Henry, her father, the political theorist of the party’s liberal wing. But Henry’s ideals are compromised by the corrupt wheeling-and-dealing of his wife’s lover, Senator Laughlin; and at the same time his progressive views are outflanked by the radicalism unleashed by opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is 1968 and, with no clear principles beyond her parents’ fashionable but now discredited liberalism, Louisa plunges into the political and sexual maelstrom of the times.
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After this preamble, the novel tells the story of the Rutledge family – how Louisa’s parents were drawn into Democratic politics with Henry, her father, the political theorist of the party’s liberal wing. But Henry’s ideals are compromised by the corrupt wheeling-and-dealing of his wife’s lover, Senator Laughlin; and at the same time his progressive views are outflanked by the radicalism unleashed by opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is 1968 and, with no clear principles beyond her parents’ fashionable but now discredited liberalism, Louisa plunges into the political and sexual maelstrom of the times.
(Source: http://www.pierspaulread.co.uk/fictio...)
224 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1971
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About the author
Piers Paul Read
43 books146 followersBritish novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history). Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, New York (1980). From 1992-7 he was Chairman of the Catholic Writers' Guild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, later adapted as a film.
His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, later adapted as a film.
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April 12, 2016
Nice theme and organization, but lousy plots and characters.
October 10, 2018
Книгата много ми хареса. Чете се на един дъх. Представя сложни човешки съдби. Завладяващо четиво!
October 10, 2016
Средна ръка книга, не е нещо, което да ме накара втори път да посегна към нея.
Най-запомнящия се герой между другото е Джейсън, хипито, за което се омъжва Луиза и неговото "търсене" на собственото "Аз".
Най-запомнящия се герой между другото е Джейсън, хипито, за което се омъжва Луиза и неговото "търсене" на собственото "Аз".
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April 19, 2012Same author who wrote Alive! about the Andes plane crash survivors.
June 7, 2013
Средна работа. Твърде много опит за теория в художествена проза действа леко изнервящо.
July 5, 2017
showed me 3 different views of life
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