My best friend was Angela Bennett. [online electronic book]
My best friend was Angela Bennett. [online electronic book]
By
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Hillier, Suzanne (Young adult writer)
Publication Date
:
2021
Subject Term
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Lawyers -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Electronic books.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Series
:
INANNA POETRY AND FICTION SERIES
INANNA POETRY & FICTION SERIES.
Summary
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Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love -- forever -- with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the forties: going to law school. Newfoundland during the wartime forties was hardly Rosie the Riveter Country. So, when Angie loses her sailor lover and marries the boy next door -- who turns out to be a sexual sadist -- she fears there is no way out. She turns to her friend Dorothy, a woman lawyer at a time when such aspirations seemed impossible. But it's what happens after that, in a world where feminism did not exist, that's surprising -- and unsettling. This novel is a tale of loss, female friendship, and of a time long past, when being a woman had few advantages, and many disadvantages. Filled with tragedy, magic realism, and humour, this novel paints a picture of women&;s lives in the forties, and of the prevailing and enduring power of female friendship.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781771338653
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