Other Women (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Alther
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early 1980’s
- Setting: A city in New Hampshire
- Principal Characters: Caroline Kelly, Hannah Burke, Jason, Jackie, Diana, Jackson, Richard Dean, Brian Stone, Arthur Burke
- 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
The Story:
Caroline Kelly was a thoroughly and helplessly divided woman. She had been married and divorced. She had left her husband for a hippie and his commune only to find that she was strongly attracted to a woman with whom she shared her lover. She currently lived with another woman in a downstairs apartment with her two sons, while Diana lived upstairs with her adolescent daughter Sharon. The two women had been physically involved, but their relationship was under great strain; Caroline decided she must have help. She went to Hannah Burke for therapy.
Caroline’s...
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