Among women only

By Cesare Pavese

Clelia, a successful couturier, arrives in Turin after the end of the Second World War to supervise the opening of a salon in the city where she spent her youth in poverty. Drawn into a circle of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DUHGW
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Noonday Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Like a Hemingway for grown-ups

This is the story of a successful businesswomen coming back to her native Turin to direct the establishment of a new fashion store. It's the time of carnival, shortly after the war. The independent protagonist is in stark contrast to other helpless women around her. Pavese's style is influenced by Hemingway and Steinbeck, but the way he treats his subject matter strikes me as a lot more grown-up. There is no machismo, no false sentimentality. Although it is more than fifty years old, there is something very contemporary about the novel. The book is pervaded by a grief which may foreshadow Pavese's suicide a few months after "Among Women Only" won him the highest literary awards in Italy.

a great world writer

I have read Among Women Only in Turkish and I liked it very much.He is also my favourite Turkish writer's-Tezer Özlü- favourite writer.If anybody would like to contact me,I am in vessiz@hotmail.com

A great Italian writer foresees his future

This is a short novel of astonishing beauty, maybe the best of Cesare Pavese. Filmed by Lucchino Visconti it became one of the rare cases in which both film and book are masterpieces, and one enlightens the other. An extraordinary portrait of the "signorile" sophistication of Turin, Italy, and of the hardnesses of life, especially of women. The story strangely parallels, but for gender and time, that of the author himself.

ambition

this is a brilliant book about a woman who is very ambitious and becomes indifferent to the fate of others. She also becomes lonely and quite isolated, but she continues her career.