In Anna Quindlen's literary novel Alternate Side, married couple Nora and Charlie Nolan find themselves at odds after a violent incident on their affluent block in Manhattan's Upper West Side. This incident triggers a journey of self-reflection and change for Nora, as she wonders where her life is going now that her children are graduating college and she no longer feels satisfied by her career. The author examines themes related to class-consciousness and differences, traditional gender roles, and compatibility issues in marriage.
For novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen, "real life is in the dishes," as she told Sybil Steinberg in a Publishers Weekly interview. Her columns for the New York Times, collected in Living Out Loud ...
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During the last decades of the twentieth century, Anna Quindlen emerged as an important novelist. Her works address a variety of topics, ranging from the maturation of a girl in a large Irish Italian ...
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Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen