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      The Lives of Women

      by Christine Dwyer Hickey
      Published
      May 2018
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      152
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      After more than thirty years in New York City, Elaine Nichols returns home to Ireland to her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. As a pregnant teenager she was sent away to avoid scandal and possible legal consequences. Shuttling back and forth between two time zones―the 1970s and the present―and set in a Cheever-esque suburb of sadness and shame, The Lives of Women deals with the savagery of respectability, betrayal, and the desperation that ensues when a sixteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and feels she has no one to help her, apart from her friends. Hickey (The Cold Eye of Heaven, Last Train from Liguria) shows herself to be a storyteller of rare ability and a stylist of clarifying beauty.

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      First Edition May 2018 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9781628972566 ISBN10 1628972564
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      Jan 2016 Grove Press ISBN13 9781782390077 ISBN10 1782390073
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      Apr 2015 Grove Press ISBN13 9781782390060 ISBN10 1782390065
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      Apr 2015 -- Not Selected ISBN10 B00SETWSD6
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