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A complex masterpiece that reveals the mind of a contemporary woman beyond the confines of family, love, and duty to one's self Lexie, a married woman with four children, undergoes a midlife crisis and questions her role as wife, mother, and lover.
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Hortense Calisher has written more than twenty books. Past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of PEN, she has been a National Book Award finalist three times and has won an O. Henry Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherArbor House
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0877951691
- ISBN 13 9780877951698
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages325
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On Keeping Women
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