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The female persuasion / Meg Wolitzer.
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer - madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place - feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.
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- ISBN: 9781594488405 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 456 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
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| Subject: | Women college students > Fiction. Ambition > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Feminists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend. By the best-selling author ofThe Interestings . - Baker & Taylor
A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned. - Penguin Putnam
A New York Times Bestseller
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âA powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." âBustle
âUltra-readable.â âVogueÂ
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.
To be admired by someone we admireâwe all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world.
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the womenâs movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greerâmadly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she canât quite placeâfeels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future sheâd always imagined.
Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. Itâs a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.
