Author

Publication

1997 - Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

86,250 words, Guess

Page Count

345 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing143196

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6073.E374 B54 1997

Description

One balmy evening in 1971, an unlikely group of women meet in a cramped living room in the suburbs of London. There's Layla, a sexy, irreverent bombshell; Alice, a serious academic; Zoe, a new mother who's frightened of her feminist-hating husband; Stephanie, a pretty, soft-spoken wife of a womanizing antiques dealer; and Nancy, newly single after leaving her no-sex-before-marriage fiance at their London youth hostel. All twenty-something, all fed up with their lives and their men, they decide to form Medusa, a feminist publishing house. Big Girls Don't Cry is a comedy in the classic Weldon tradition. Against the backdrop of failing families, husband swapping, and suburban tedium, Big Girls Don't Cry chronicles five women's attempts and failures to create a new life.

First Sentence

Slap, slap, slurp: a hollow, juicy sound.

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Other Editions

  • Big girls don't cryAtlantic Monthly Press1997-01-01

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