A historical portrait of one woman's quest for happiness amid a lifetime of bad men.
There Are Victories is a proto-feminist, anti-Bildungsroman that explores the intersections of misogyny, class, religion, and prejudice within upper class Anglo-Montreal and New York City society before, during, and after WWI. Originally published in 1933, There Are Victories takes up the catastrophe of the home front and the ways in which the life--and happiness--of the novel's protagonist, Ruth Courtney, is continually undermined by the bad behaviour of men. This new edition features a foreword by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud.
A historical portrait of one woman's quest for happiness amid a lifetime of bad men.
There Are Victories is a proto-feminist, anti-Bildungsroman that explores the intersections of misogyny, class, religion, and prejudice within upper class Anglo-Montreal and New York City society before, during, and after WWI. Originally published in 1933, There Are Victories takes up the catastrophe of the home front and the ways in which the life--and happiness--of the novel's protagonist, Ruth Courtney, is continually undermined by the bad behaviour of men. This new edition features a foreword by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud.
Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954) was born in Philadelphia and
raised in a Jewish family in Montreal. Harrison moved from Montreal
to New York in the 1920s, where he worked on the staff of the
Communist Party of America (CPUSA)-led magazine New Masses. Drawing
on his own service in the First World War, he published Generals
Die in Bed (1930), a scathingly anti-war novel about the horrors of
trench warfare. The novel was well-received and was followed by the
novels A Child is Born (1931), There Are Victories (1933), Meet Me
on the Barricades (1938), and Nobody's Fool (1948).
Johanna Skibsrud is a Canadian-American writer, whose debut novel,
The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize,
making her the youngest writer to ever win Canada's most
prestigious literary prize. She is the author of two novels, two
collection of short fiction, three collections of poetry, and the
co-author of a children's book, Sometimes We Think You are a Monkey
-- proceeds of which are being donated to the Himalayan School
Project. She received her BA in English Literature at the
University of Toronto, her MA in English and Creative Writing from
Concordia University in Montreal, and her PhD in English Literature
at the Université de Montréal.
"Written in an exquisitely modulated manner that is admirably
suited to its matter, Mr.
Harrison's novel is a delicate, penetrating study of a woman's
soul, crowded with dramatic incident and stripped of all the futile
irrelevancies that make the usual novel such a trial to
read."--from the original dustjacket copy-- "original jacket copy"
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