Spanning the years of the Great Depression and World War II, this saga of a Southern Jewish family moves from New York to Paris, from Monte Carlo to London, but always it returns to its main setting, the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
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From Publishers Weekly
Segal ( Susquehanna ) here creates two female characters who lend style and support to an otherwise insubstantial romance. Charlee Fields is a tall, spirited 16-year-old enjoying a warm relationship with her cousin Lauren Jacobson, who, at 17, is quiet, petite and bookish. Wealthy and cosseted Jewish girls growing up in 1930s North Carolina, they feel compelled to uphold family traditions and to adhere rigidly to the moral code of the times. They are genuinely devoted to each other, with just one concern clouding Lauren's mind: Charlee wants a beau only if he's interested in Lauren. After a sumptuous society debut and a year spent traveling among a network of Southern cousins for more parties, the young women part. Charlee, after attending an exclusive finishing school in New York, eventually marries the enormously wealthy Bruce Fields. Lauren studies for an advanced degree at Chapel Hill and marries penniless young doctor David Bernard. Key events in this melodrama rely heavily on a number of sexual dysfunctions: because of the impotence, frigidity or sexual ambivalence of sundry characters, Charlee ultimately has an affair with David, with far-reaching and irrevocable consequences. Lauren and Charlee--and their disparate, well-rendered milieus--provide a needed spark to a faltering story.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Cousins Lauren and Charlotte Lee grow up together on Shadow Mountain in North Carolina in the 1930s. While Charlee has everything given to her, Lauren often does without. Charlee, though younger, is the more outgoing and is the object of Lauren's admiration. Lauren walks in Charlee's shadow, ceding beauty, charm, and even boyfriends to her. But when Lauren meets David, she wants him for herself. Later, when their son is sick one night, and Lauren can't find David, doubts creep into their marriage. Misunderstandings and breakdowns in communications result, exacerbated by outside influences. This work is reminiscent of Cynthia Freeman, but the Jewish background is less pronounced. The plot holds the reader's interest, and the characters are realistic. Recommended.
- Andrea Lee Shuey, Dallas P.L.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Andrea Lee Shuey, Dallas P.L.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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As a girl in Wilkes-Barre,PA, Harriet Segal wrote short stories, poems and plays for school publications. After graduating from Wellesley College, she had various writing jobs as a copywriter, a journalist, and free-lance editor. Living in India during the early 1960s with her scientist husband, she wrote pamphlets for the U.S. Information Agency. But it was not until her three daughters were in high school that she began to pursue a lifelong dream: to write a novel.
SUSQUEHANNA was published in 1984 to critical acclaim. The generational saga of an immigrant family from Eastern Europe, it is set in the anthracite coal regions of northeastern Pennsylvania, where Segal grew up. It was soon followed by CATCH THE WIND, the love story of two doctors, with rich backgrounds in Peru, Paris and India. Next came SHADOW MOUNTAIN, a novel of the American South, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection; and THE SKYLARK'S SONG--a Good Housekeeping Novel of the Month--the story of a woman whose life is a testament to the endurance of the human spirit.
Harriet Segal has been described as a story teller with a strong narrative voice and a talent for painting evocative settings and memorable characters. Now a grandmother of seven, she has recently moved from New York to the Boston suburbs and spends her summers on Cape Cod. Her latest novel, THE EXPATRIATE, has been released as an eBook.
SUSQUEHANNA was published in 1984 to critical acclaim. The generational saga of an immigrant family from Eastern Europe, it is set in the anthracite coal regions of northeastern Pennsylvania, where Segal grew up. It was soon followed by CATCH THE WIND, the love story of two doctors, with rich backgrounds in Peru, Paris and India. Next came SHADOW MOUNTAIN, a novel of the American South, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection; and THE SKYLARK'S SONG--a Good Housekeeping Novel of the Month--the story of a woman whose life is a testament to the endurance of the human spirit.
Harriet Segal has been described as a story teller with a strong narrative voice and a talent for painting evocative settings and memorable characters. Now a grandmother of seven, she has recently moved from New York to the Boston suburbs and spends her summers on Cape Cod. Her latest novel, THE EXPATRIATE, has been released as an eBook.
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