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...And Ladies of the Club

Helen Hooven Santmyer

Paperback | Pages: 1184 pages

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Title	:	...And Ladies of the Club
Author	:	Helen Hooven Santmyer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1184 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2000 by Berkley Trade (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics

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A #1 New York Times bestseller--and an American classic--now in trade paperback...

A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.

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Original Title:	"...And Ladies of the Club"
ISBN:	0425174409 (ISBN13: 9780425174401)
Edition Language:	English

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So, I loved this book the first time I read and am now re-reading it. It is long and rather involved as it covers the lives of small town Ohioans in post Cival War America. It really has it all--politics, history, marital struggles, rebelious children. Don't be put off by the size of the book, it is without a doubt worth the read.

I enjoyed this book thoroughly. What I loved best was the passing of time in the characters' lives. We follow them from the time they are young women, on through adulthood and to their deaths. Mom recommended this book to me. I read this book ONLY on my lunch breaks as part of a bet because it was so long, one of my co-workers didn't believe I could finish it in a certain time period and only in 1 hour/work day. I won, he had to buy me a Coke or something like that.

Sometimes I wonder what it is about certain books - or parts of books that cause them to stay with us many years after we'ver read them. It's been at least 10 years since I read this book - yet I still remember details of it. There are a number of books I've read since that I'd be hard pressed to tell you much about at all.

My favorite book of all time. It's about everyday life in an Ohio town from the end of the Civil War through the Depression. The book covers the lives of the ladies and their families in a literary club. It deals with their personal relationships that seem so real, it makes you feel like you're there. A very long book with over 1100 pages, but well worth the read. When you are finished you are wishing for more.

This is a monstrously huge book. The standard paperback runs to over 1700 pages. I read the trade paperback which is a much larger page but with tiny print which got this one down to 1173 pages. There are several things I have to say about this book; #1 Mrs Santmyer desperately needed a good editor. Not only was the book full of typos, it was just too long. Someone needed to step in and do some ruthless cutting.#2 There was really not a story arc. While there was a primary and secondary set of

I finished this doorstop of a book! Having read about this supposed "Gone with the Wind" style epic which took the author fifty years to complete, I had to order it from a used book dealer to get a copy. It is very dated, and its attitudes reek of the politics and biases of its eras... it did take fifty years to write, the author was born in the late 1890s, and the story itself begins as the American Civil War has come to an end and concludes prior to WWII. Although the author, a woman, created

Reminds one of Jane Austen in its comedy of manners style. Perfect picture of post-Civil War generations in the life of a small Ohio town and the changes of lifestyle and class divisions that ensue. I was sucked slowly into the lives of the two main families and the "ladies of the club". Worthwhile read.