![]() ![]() ![]() In "Lysistrata" the women agree to stop having sex with men until the endless Peloponnesian War is over. Their teenage son lives with Fran during the school year and with his father in the summer.įran chooses for the school play a Greek comedy by Aristophanes. They talk everyday and visit each other several times a year. Supposedly she has a husband living in Michigan with whom she is still very much in love. Fran Heller is unconventional in dress, attitude and lifestyle. In The Uncoupling, a new drama teacher arrives at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Stellar Plains, New Jersey. So to read our thoughts and feelings in a novel is startling and comforting at the same time. Possibly despite feminism, consciousness raising and even the age of confessional memoir, we are most of us somewhat ashamed to think or feel as we do. It is true that we only share those thoughts and feelings privately, even with other women. ![]() What she does do well is capture and relate the thoughts women have privately as well as the commonplace emotions of women. She is simply a bad writer and I cannot fathom how she gets even one good review, though she gets many. My three novel study, read in under two weeks, rendered me in turn unable to stay awake during the day, unable to sleep at night, unable to digest my food, and generally irritable all over. ![]()
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