NPRs Here and Now re-aired their interview with J. Courtney Sullivan this week to celebrate the paperback release of THE ENGAGEMENTS: [Host Robin] YOUNG: Right, but [Frances Gerety] - it is so interesting. She never marries. She is a frontierswoman in advertising. She tries to join the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania so that she can get closer to the men who were working there. Shes very conscious that she wants to stay up late with her dogs and play with copy. Shes not interested in getting married. SULLIVAN: No, not at all. And thats what was so fascinating to me about [Frances]. She really created these romantic ideas that we now associate with diamonds, but she herself was not romantic in any way. It wasnt - it didnt interest her, because she was living in a time when, really, a woman had to decide: Do I want to follow a career path, or do I want to be married? And obviously, thats part of [THE ENGAGEMENTS], too, how that has changed over the years.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:00:00 +0000
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