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The story traces the lives of six high school girlfriends from 1917, told through the memories of one. It is now twenty years later, and she is a middle class Bronx housewife. One girl has become a world-famous actress; another is a frustrated concert singer who finds fulfillment in teaching music; one is a "boyfriend stealer" who lives to regret her actions; another marries a Russian engineer and "finds satisfaction in being solemn about the future of the Soviet Union" and of course there is a career woman....Several months before the book's publication, it was announced that David O. Selznick had purchased the movie rights, but despite the efforts of a number of screenwriters (among them… Read more
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