WOMAN OF PROPERTY

by Mabel Seeley ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Story of a self-made woman, whose ruthless disregard of the people who stood in her way brought her success, which- at the end-turns to ashes in her mouth. Frieda had all the counts against her, in the last decade of the century when to be a foreigner, and poor, were unforgivable sins. Accident opened her eyes to the fact that she had assets which she was ignoring; that she could ""manipulate"" the things that came her way. And so- ignorant, hard, with nothing of imagination or kindliness in her -- for either family or friends- she reached for her particular star, and when that escaped her clutches, she took what she was as next best. Her marriage was a farce; motherhood was a nuisance; the job she created for herself was her life- and to it she fed all else. Her men were tools- often worthless ones- her arrogant conceit, her overweening ambition, her lust for gold combined to make her a cheat, a liar, an ingrate. And- at the end-when success was in her hand- she lost-and faced emptiness. Well-done- but the reader has no glimmer of sympathy for the central character, and- for me at least- there's need for some measure of understanding if there's to be any joy in the reading.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1947

Categories: FICTION