These Are The Times

By Clare Jaynes

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• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000EHWC78
• Release Date: January 1945
• Publisher: World/Tower
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An extraordinary examination of marriage and individual motivations set during the time of WWII

This novel is by the authors of My Reputation (originally published as Instruct my Sorrows,) which is likely better known because My Reputation was made into a film starring Barbara Stanwyck. The author Clare Jaynes is actually a writing team of two women, and in These are the Times, it might be possible to infer this because of the extraordinary way the story unfolds. Amid descriptions of curtains and corridors and doctor's waiting rooms and other mundane things, the characters speak and act in ways that are mundane, as well, but as a bystander, will have the reader hastening to turn the page to see what it all means. The characters, even the main characters, are not all likeable, and by today's standards might be seen as reprehensible, but there lies the fascination with this story. Set around the private lives of doctors, the language is not overly technical, and the medical details are not particularly interesting, save the one glaring problem which is not named and which might be recognized by people today with an interest in human behavior, particularly psychology. An excellent novel, one that will be very interesting to women, including young women, with an interest in marital dynamics and a woman's place in a man's world; but also of interest to men who could read the same novel with an eye to how men navigate in what was once an almost exclusively male world.