Lillian on life [WorldCat Entities]

"Born in the Midwest in the 1930s, Lillian lived, loved, and worked in Europe in the fifties and early sixties; she settled in New York and pursued the great love of her life in the sixties and seventies. Now it's the early nineties, and she's taking stock. Throughout her life, walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern choices for women, Lillian grappled with parental disappointment and societal expectations, won and lost in love, and developed her own brand of wisdom."
""A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--"@en
""A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--"
"Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not at all the life she expected. Walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern options for women, Lillian has grappled with parental disappointment, society's expectations and the vagaries of love and sex. As a narrator she's bold and witty, and her reflections - from 'On Getting to Sex' to 'On the Importance of Big Pockets' or 'On Leaving in Order to Stay' - reverberate originally and unpredictably. In Lillian on Life, Alison Jean Lester has created a brutally honest portrait of a woman living through the post-war decades of change in Munich, Paris, London and New York. Her story resonates with the glamour and energy of those cities. Charming, sometimes heartbreaking, never a stereotype, Lillian is completely herself; her view of the world is unique. You won't soon forget her."