Girl by Meridel Le Sueur (2006, Perfect)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWest End Press
ISBN-100975348655
ISBN-139780975348659
eBay Product ID (ePID)50887143

Product Key Features

Edition2
Book TitleGirl
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPolitical, Historical
Publication Year2006
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorMeridel Le Sueur
FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsMeridel, where have you been all my life?Such a powerful writer; such an amazingly sad and brutal story, flat-out gorgeously written., Meridel, where have you been all my life? Such a powerful writer; such an amazingly sad and brutal story, flat-out gorgeously written., A young woman off the farm--and known only as Girl--finds work at a speakeasy called the German Village in late 1930s downtown St. Paul, Minn. The hard-luck stories of the wretched women who congregate there form the spine of this proletarian work and offer Girl a glimmer of solace. . . . Le Sueur's feminist novel, written in the '30s and first published in 1978, still strikes viscerally.|9780975348659|
Dewey Decimal813/.5/2
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe Girl explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and to give birth to her daughter, her hope for a new generation., "The Girl" explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and to give birth to her daughter, her hope for a new generation., This celebrated novel by one of the leading radical woman writers of the twentieth century is reissued in a format designed for the general reader. Written in 1939, first published in 1978 (by West End Press), "The Girl" explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and to give birth to her daughter, her hope for a new generation. "Meridel Le Sueur's work stands, urgent and unique, at that bloody crossroads where politics and culture meet."--Paul Lauter, Trinity College, This celebrated novel by one of the leading radical woman writers of the twentieth century is reissued in a format designed for the general reader. Written in 1939, first published in 1978 (by West End Press), The Girl explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and to give birth to her daughter, her hope for a new generation. "Meridel Le Sueur's work stands, urgent and unique, at that bloody crossroads where politics and culture meet."--Paul Lauter, Trinity College

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