num_pages: 480
description: To be admired by someone we admirewe all yearn for this: the private electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three has been a central pillar of the womens movement for decades a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time Greermadly in love with her boyfriend Cory but still full of longing for an ambition that she cant quite placefeels her inner world light up. And then astonishingly Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future shed always imagined. Charming and wise knowing and witty Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence ego and loyalty womanhood and ambition. At its heart The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. Its a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time) and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: The Female Persuasion
publisher: Riverhead Books