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SpinstersPagan Kennedy
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Spinsters

150 pagesFirst published 19952 editions · 2 languages
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It's 1968. Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, have been taking care of their father for their entire adult lives. When he dies, they hit the road in their Plymouth Valiant to take a much needed vacation. Frannie, the novel's narrator, longs to continue her reclusive life with her sister. But Doris, cut free of responsibility, wants to raise hell and get laid. Their journey through the changing landscape of America - civil rights marches, the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago - is an elegy to a lost time in the United States. It…

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Editions

2 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 1995
    High Risk · 158 pages · 9781852424053
  • Other · German · 1997
    Späte Mädchen
    Rowohlt · 143 pages · 9783499221408
SistersSingle womenFictionFiction, generalSisters, fictionSingle women, fiction