The furies

Janet Hobhouse

earliest edition we have, 1992 Touchstone Books, 1993 344 pages

New York Review Books classics

In a novel of sweeping grandeur and lush, brilliant prose, Janet Hobhouse delves deep into the heart of a quarrelsome, self-dramatizing, and passionate family of women, three generations of mothers and daughters - daughters who leave mothers and mothers who leave daughters. It is a family of no fathers to speak of and no brothers, and for two generations there is born a pair of sisters who will define themselves to t...

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The furies edition · 2004 · New York Review Books · 293 pages
Furies edition · 1994 · Anchor · 9780385470544
The furies edition · 1993 · Doubleday · 293 pages
The furies edition · 1993 · Touchstone Books · 344 pages
The Furies hardcover · 1992 · Bloomsbury · 240 pages · 9780747512707

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