Is This What Other Women Feel Too - (American Literature) by June Akers Seese & June A Seese (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

June Akers Seese's second novel is about books and the people who read them: it's about a rare-book dealer and his mistress, set in that era when words like "mistress" were still used, and recalling the years when Lenny Bruce, Edith Piaf, and Freud might share the same paragraph in an after-hours night spot. Seese writes movingly, tightly, without recourse to adjectives, from the gut and to the gut.

Review Quotes

Readers cannot deny Seese's realistic, albeit poignant, portrayal of how one woman feels. Recommended.--"Library Journal"

The very personal style of the author makes the heroine's loneliness and sense of helplessness more immediate.--"Booklist"

Touching?--at times jarring.... From bra-stuffing to Janis Joplin, e. e. cummings to Lenny Bruce, Neutrogena soap to the race riots in Detroit, well-chosen details give texture to the characters' lives. Kate's depression is painful but her attitude never entirely humorless, and the counterpoint between her sometimes resigned, generally cynical (but always intelligent) voice and the snappy letters from Parker keeps the pace brisk." -- Publishers Weekly--"Publishers Weekly"