KITTY FOYLE, which caused indignation in many readers, was an unexpected revelation, told in the person of an Irish-American 'white collar girl,' of the mind and heart and biology of a young woman of the 1930's. In spite of the indignation it aroused, however, this book was a national best-seller and an unqualified success at the box-office when it was presented as a motion picture with Ginger Rogers in the title role.
KITTY FOYLE is representative of a generation of women who were children in the 1920's, and girls in the 1930's and who have known a special kind of joy and trouble. The scenes happen to be laid in Philadelphia and in New York, but might have been equally true in any large American cities.
The rarest thing in the world is truthful confassion from a woman whose confessions are worth hearing. From Kitty Foyle, born of modest Irish-American stock in a manufacturing region of Philadelphia, we hear what it was like to be an American girl in the years just behind us, and her look toward the future. In school, in business, in love, in her struggle against a massive and frozen social tradition—and in her defeat which looks strangely like victory—we get to know and admire her. Not even our sympathy can help her solve the problem she faces at the end. It has never been solved and it never will be.
- Autor: Christopher Morley
- Kategoria: literatura obyczajowa, romans
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 000-00-0000-00-0
- Data wydania: 1945-01-01
- Liczba stron: 285
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Armed Services Editions
