If you’re not into romances, you probably wouldn’t like it much, but if you are, you would. First Edition, Stateded Sixteenth Printing, copyright by Kathleen Winsor, 1944 Printed 1945. I’m not well-read in that genre, but it seems like it would be part of the upper crust, in regards to writing style and character depth. Kathleen Winsor was an American literary fiction novelist that made her name with the publishing of the blockbuster novel Forever Amber.

A strong argument could be constructed either way, but if you’re just wondering if it’s worth reading, I’ll say this: In a lot of ways, it seems and reads like a bodice-ripper romance. Forever after Forever Amber, and some seven years after her start on her present novel, Kathleen Winsor has reduced her original manuscript from a fat 4,247 pages to a stylish stout 1,453. Kathleen Winsors roman a clef about her experience as the suddenly famous author of a new bestselling novel - ahem, excuse me, the BEAUTIFUL famous author.

There’s one question people who take popular culture seriously tend to ask about this type of work, any answer to which is frequently debated: Is it endorsing or addressing social inequalities? Does Amber’s reliance on appearances and sexuality to get what she wants support that behavior, or is it criticizing how that was the only avenue society had left open for women with ambition. Winsor graduated in 1938 from the University of California, Berkeley.

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