{"product_id":"the-duchess-of-angus-9781595349071","title":"The Duchess of Angus","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Maverick Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Maverick Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after her death, Margaret Brown Kilik's shocking coming-of-age novel of the emotional and sexual brutality of young women's lives in wartime San Antonio deserves a place on the shelf alongside classic novels like Sylvia Plath's \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e and Carson McCullers's \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Duchess of Angus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e reworks Kilik's unusual personal history (her mother spent the 1930's running flophouse hotels all over the United States, leaving Margaret to be brought up by a host of relatives) into a riveting portrait of a young woman navigating a conflicted and rapidly changing world, one in which sex promises both freedom from convention and violent subjection to men's will. Strikingly modern in its depiction of protagonist Jane Davis and her gorgeous, unreadable friend Wade Howell, \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess of Angus\u003c\/i\u003e covers some of the same emotional territory as novels like Emma Cline's \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and Robyn Wasserman's \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes an introduction by Jenny Davidson and contextual essays by Laura Hernández-Ehrisma and Char Miller.","brand":"Maverick Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134597193879,"sku":"9781595349071","price":1381.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781595349071.webp?v=1767908022","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-duchess-of-angus-9781595349071","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}