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Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590170857    
Release Date: 2004-07

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The four generations of women described in Janet Hobhouse's autobiographical novel rival the Furies of Greek myth in their capacity to love and hate with a vengeance. At the heart of the story is a mother-daughter conflict that is at certain moments an innocent love affair between romantic co-conspirators and at others a bitter and deforming contest of wills. Hobhouse, who died of ovarian cancer while writing The Furies, takes on the irresolvability of the struggle between safety and liberty, and loyalty and defiance. In what amounts to her last words - told in a voice of unforgettable immediacy - Hobhouse finds that the quest for understanding can itself be a form of letting go.

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