Other Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Alther
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early 1980’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, 1980’s, New England, New Hampshire, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women, Nursing or nurses, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
- Locales: New Hampshire
Places Discussed
Lake Glass Therapy Center. Place where Caroline has lengthy therapy sessions with Hannah Burke that develop the major themes of the novel. Noting the brown tweed couch, bookshelves, photographs of children, and poorly tended fern in Hannah’s office, Caroline initially believes she cannot be helped in such a shallow, comfortable, conventionally suburban atmosphere. However, the sign on Hannah’s office door, “Thank you for shutting up while I smoke,” is indicative of Hannah’s refreshing honesty and self- acceptance—characteristics that the...
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