Sweet Genevieve

By August William Derleth and August Derleth

Book Overview

One of the most poignant of August Derleth's novels, Sweet Genevieve (1942) tells the story of Genevieve (Jenny) Breen, beset by over-strict parents and a sense that the small town is a barrier to her pursuit of a career and a full, rich life. She abruptly decides to seize the opportunity to work on a showboat, the Oliver Mackenzie, when one of its actresses dies unexpectedly while performing in Sac Prairie. Her departure is painful to her sweetheart, David Lasson, who was hoping to marry her. But Jenny, although initially finding success as an actress on the boat as it courses up and down the Mississippi River, falls under the sway of the company's leading man, Aldric Winfield-a relationship she comes to regret. Set in the early years of World War I, Sweet Genevieve speaks eloquently of the difficulties women faced in that era in the fulfillment of their dreams, and the struggle to balance love and work-issues that remain pressing in our own day

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D3RLRC1Z
• ISBN13: 9798324912383
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"