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Dont lets ask for the moon We have the stars The film that concludes withBette Daviss famous words reaffirmed Daviss own stardom and changed the wayAmericans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of awomans selfrealization know its source. Olive Higgins Proutys 1941 novelNow Voyager provides an even richer deeper portrait of the inner life ofits protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of morethan 60 years it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatrictreatment traditional family life female desire and womens agency.Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy sheltered life. Lonelydowdy repressed and pushing 40 Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitariumwhere she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extrememakeover the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruiseand findsherself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusionof the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin as Charlotte is forcedto navigate a new life for herself. While Now Voyager is a tearjerkingromance it is at the same time the empowering story of a woman who finds thestrength to chart her own course in life who discovers love sex and evenmotherhood outside of marriage and who learns that men are ultimatelydispensable in the quest for happiness and fulfillment.Olive Higgins Prouty 18821974 like many of her characters a wealthyBostonian was the author of ten novels including Stella Dallas 1923which became the basis for three films and a longrunning radio serial. Agraduate of Smith College Prouty endowed awriters scholarship at Smith thatwas received by Sylvia Plath who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly inThe Bell Jar. «
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