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West found Americans honestly straightforward when she visited America in the 1920s; certainly Uncle Honore (and to an extent Isabelle) is modeled on her perceptions of Americans. Again The...
With her signature wit and wisdom, West presents a captivating ode to marriages depth and the romance of the bond between husband and wife. Genres Fiction Classics Romance Literary Fiction France British Literature 20th Century. ...more. 431 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1936.
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5. Juni 2020 · Her 1936 novel The Thinking Reed, set partly in Antibes, is peopled by the kind of indolent and self-serving visitors who partied and gambled on the Riviera in the 1920s with scant regard for moral standards and human welfare. While West exploits her Riviera scenario to satirize the excesses of an era before the 1929 Wall Street ...
- Rosemary Lancaster
14. Apr. 2021 · Like The Return of the Soldier (1918, see my review) The Thinking Reed is listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It’s cited because it sensitively examines the limitations of the life led by many middle-class women during the 1920s and it highlights the disintegration not only of a class but an entire way of life.
12. Feb. 2020 · In novels such as The Return of the Soldier (1918), Harriet Hume (1929), The Thinking Reed (1936), and Sunflower (published posthumously), West used dress to mark class status, artistic taste, and sociopolitical attitudes, and to indicate inner states of being, as well as to express her own complex literary, aesthetic, and ...
- Margaret D. Stetz
- stetzm@udel.edu
- 2020
The thinking reed by West, Rebecca, 1892-1983. Publication date 1936 Topics Widows, Upper class Publisher New York, Viking Press Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 431 p Acc ...
Like The Return of the Soldier (1918, see my review) The Thinking Reed is listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It's cited because it sensitively examines the limitations of the life led by many middle-class women during the 1920s and it highlights the disintegration not only of a class but an entire way of life.
