The Underground Woman (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kay Boyle
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Justice, Freedom, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Mothers, Prisoners, Social issues, Class consciousness, Women, Activism
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
In The Underground Woman, Boyle's last novel, the author characteristically draws upon her own experiences for her basic framework. Like her heroine, Athena Gregory, Boyle was jailed for participating in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam; likewise, her daughter rejected her family and joined a religious cult; similarly, Boyle was a professor at a San Francisco university.
The book opens with Athena and fifteen other protesters in a patrol wagon on their way to jail because they blocked the entrance of an induction center. Slightly more than half the book is taken...
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