Emmeline
1980
First Published
3.80
Average Rating
331
Number of Pages
The story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her 14th birthday, was sent from her home on a farm in Maine to support her family by working in a cotton mill in Massachusetts. The year was 1839. An extraordinary novel from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, the story of a desperate young girl thrust into one of America's early industrial towns is a haunting tale of seduction.
Avg Rating
3.80
Number of Ratings
551
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Judith Rossner
Author · 10 books
Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work, she continued to write. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a troubled young woman and her psychoanalyst who has emotional troubles of her own.
