Attachments (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Perelman
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: Los Angeles, New York City, and Bootsville, New Hampshire
- Principal Characters: Nadine, Dianne Shapiro, Amos and Eddie Smith, Carly, Marianne Story
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Gender roles, Self, New York City, Marriage, Alienation, Friendship, New England, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Brothers, Women’s issues, Loneliness
- Locales: New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, New Hampshire
Form and Content
Attachments is the story of a woman’s attempt to shape order out of chaos and her eventual realization of self. Nadine represents cognizant women who tried to find substance beneath the fabrications and superficialities of society in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.
As a child, Nadine tries to find containment in the nucleus of her family. Her search is futile, however, as her mental life is several levels deeper that of her parents. A former college coach and a Miss America contestant, her father and mother are bewildered by the spectacled,...
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