The Resource Freya : a novel, Anthony Quinn
Freya : a novel, Anthony Quinn
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The item Freya : a novel, Anthony Quinn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway, eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship that will endure on and off for the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street and her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic blackmailers, political careerists. Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times and a city being reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart, and the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political and personal tumult
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Freya : a novel
- Title
- Freya
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Anthony Quinn
- Subject
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- Friendship -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway, eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship that will endure on and off for the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street and her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic blackmailers, political careerists. Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times and a city being reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart, and the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political and personal tumult
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Quinn, Anthony
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Friendship
- Women
- Female friendship
- Female friendship
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Women
- London (England)
- Great Britain
- London (England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Freya : a novel, Anthony Quinn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000057177229
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 455 pages
- Isbn
- 9781910702512
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)944935785
- Label
- Freya : a novel, Anthony Quinn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000057177229
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 455 pages
- Isbn
- 9781910702512
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)944935785
Subject
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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