This Real Night

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453207062

<DIV><B>In the</B><B> second installment of Rebecca West&rsquo;s Saga of the Century trilogy, Rose Aubrey, her sisters, and her cousin stand on the brink of adulthood and a new era for women</B><BR /> &#160;<DIV>They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one&rsquo;s own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her family must move beyond their comfortable drawing room to discover a world of kind patrons, music teachers, and concert hall acclaim, but also domestic strife, anti-Semitism, and social pressure to marry.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>Set before World War I, Rebecca West&rsquo;s intimate, eloquent family portrait brings to life a time when women recognized their own voices and the joys of living off one&rsquo;s own talents.</DIV></DIV>