American Novels: American Follies (Paperback)

from book58lover

I have read about 100 pages, give or take, and just can't continue. I have never read any books by this author and thought it would be interesting given my living in central New York where Stanton and Anthony are revered. But...I just can't continue. I find it too improbable and can't suspend my ...

from strongstuff

American Follies seeks to reveal our follies: the racism, sexism, and disenfranchisement endemic in America today, as it was in the nineteenth century. Through a circus, a minstrel show, a psychiatric hospital, etc., the social issues that plague the human race surface again and again. While occa...

from janerawoof

Interesting book set at the turn of the 20th century. A young pregnant woman, Ellen Finch, is hired as a secretary to two famous suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She befriends a "little person", Margaret, in P.T. Barnum's circus and meets Margaret's friends from the circ...

from minacee

I'm not familiar with any of the other books in Norman Lock's "American Novels" series. This is the seventh in the series and that makes me a little shocked this is the first time I'm encountering one of them. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention? This is historical fiction and I normally d...

from ritaer

I am even less impressed by this novel than by my earlier sampling of Lock's _American Meteor_. It is indeed folly to turn the leaders of the Women's Suffrage movement first into eccentrics whose conversations consist of spouting slogans at one another and company, then into minstrel show mounteb...