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In Her Day: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1988

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For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust—until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative.

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For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust--until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative.

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For years a "lost" collector's item,  here is the second novel from a brilliant young  author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting  at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast  of characters and crackling quips. Written  immediately after her classic Rubyfruit  Jungle, In Her Day takes a  loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of  Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant  art history professor Carole Hanratty insists  brains transcend lust--until she crashes into Ilse, a  revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of  youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a  sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to  get Carole to join The Movement, but  forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years  of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged  down in talk. After all, says Carole's best  friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good  things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion  is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to  McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious  merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if  politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate  restorative.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam (October 1, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553275739
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553275735
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 0.5 x 6.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sister Jane novels-Outfoxed, Hotspur, Full Cry, The Hunt Ball, The Hounds and the Fury, The Tell-Tale Horse, and Hounded to Death-as well as the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries and Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, and The Sand Castle, among many others. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018
I liked the characters. I had read the book years ago but really enjoyed reading it again now that I'm older.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2003
Have you made the acquaintance of Rita Mae Brown yet?
In her day is Rita Mae Brown's 2nd novel, and it's a goodie, full of quirky characters, cracking wit, wicked humor - and also full of love for her fellow flawed humans. Brown, for those who don't know, is lesbian, and she's at her best dealing with characters who come up against surprising twists in their own sexual yearnings.
Okay. In Her Day deals with Carole (with an `e'), a cerebral art history professor who is cool, cool, cool until she bangs smack dab into Ilse, a feminist in full battle regalia. Romance, shall we say, ensues. But there's trouble due to the fact that Ilse is significantly younger then Carole, so there are generational issues to resolve in the feminism wars.
...It's great.
Read it.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2015
I love the writing of Rita Mae Brown. This book is an early one but just a sample of what is to come.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2017
Her best work as far as I'm concerned.
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2017
great book i loved it
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
Smart...sexy....Rita Mae style!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Little known early work of Rita May Brown yet one of my favourites; new intro makes it!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2019
This is a little known early work of Rita May Brown's yet remains one of my favourites. AND this edition has something as good as the book: Brown's reprint introduction, written when she turned the same age as one of the book's characters, the older woman whom a rabble rousing young Brown created for the story in her early 20's. The "her" in the title is very much modelled on that young Brown and the character alternatively lives the life of a radical feminist with other like minded women her own age and a fun filled life in the whacky cycle of friends of her older college professor lover; a woman with a very different life. In Brown's introduction she praises her young self for writing such a good older woman. This older woman was always my favourite character of the book, a book which I first read soon after it came out.

So, if you like Rita Mae Brown do buy it. And if you want a beautiful tribute to the tolerant civil society America used to be, it's a must.
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