Name: Big Girls Don't Cry

Author: Fay Weldon
Year: 1977
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9780871137593
0871137593
First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man'€™s world'€”only to be foiled by their own ambition '€œA Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.'€ It'€™s the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men'€™s hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing gives the so-called Four Furies a platform for speaking out against female oppression. Layla is a wealthy, fundamental radical, intolerant of anyone whose ideals deviate, even slightly, from her own'€”that is, until she finds herself seduced by a married man; tiny Alice is '€œall mind and very little matter,'€ until she discovers the dangerous New Age practice of goddess worship; Stephanie leaves her unfaithful husband in pursuit of sexual fulfillment with other men'€”and women; and Nancy, tired of washing her fiancé'€™s socks, discovers she has a remarkable mind for business. Big Girls Don'€™t Cry is the story of four women who are determined to change the world, and who, over the course of two-and-a-half decades, ultimately transform themselves.


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