Now, Voyager

By: Olive Higgins Prouty

This is the book which was made into the famous movie for which Bette Davis received an Oscar. It is the dramatic story of a repressed Boston girl who finds emotional and spiritual rebirth in the freedom of being loved. Charlotte Vale is the victim of a tyrannical mother who for years has deprived her not only of freedom of action and speech, but of all initiative. with the connivance of a psychiatrist who senses the cause of the girl's nervous breakdown, and a wise sister-in-law, Charlotte embarks secretly on an ocean cruise - in another girl's clothes. Traveling alone for the first time in her life, Charlotte has a chance to try out the new personality and new principles that old Dr. Jaquith had so faithfully tried to teach her. If she can only manage to convey the impression of being used to smoking cigarettes and drinking cocktails with young men, and wearing vivid, daring clothes over a slim body. Jerry durance, on board the boat, is also the victim of domestic tyranny, this time a wife. The bond of temporary freedom between the two develops rapidly into love and companionship which, in spite of their resolves, cannot be terminated when they separate in Italy. Her love for Jerry changes Charlotte's entire life. The account of Charlotte's rebirth through finding love is told with the same pathos, humor and freedom from sentimentality that made Mrs. Prouty's "Stella Dallas" the favorite of millions of readers and movie and radio fans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000NZZSS6
• Release Date: January 1943
• Publisher: Triangle Books
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.9" x 7.2"