The Thinking Reed
by Rebecca West | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Rebecca West was well known throughout the twentieth century for her progressive and feminist politics, and her fifth novel The Thinking Reed (1936) sensitively examines the limitations of the life led by many middle-class women during the 1920s. It follows the fortunes of Isabelle Torrey, and intelligent young American widow who is prematurely thrust on to the European social scene. Disappointed in a love affair, she impulsively marries the immensely wealthy Marc Sallafranque, only to experience emotional swings from love to hate and back again over the course of their violent and passionate marriage. Charting an evolving relationship against the background of the decadent social scene of the very wealthy, The Thinking Reed, like Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, highlights the disintegration of not only a class but an entire way of life. Strikes and industrial unrest grow daily more violent at Marc’s automobile factory outside Paris, while the stock market crash looms across the ocean. Marc and Isabelle’s carefree lifestyle is clearly doomed, but in losing their fortune, the novel implies, they will gain the human dimension missing from their increasingly desperate and empty social maneuverings. Eventually Isabelle comes to feel only revulsion for the vapid and cruel social circle that she once embraced so enthusiastically.
The Thinking Reed remains an important and thoughtful exploration of relationships, class, and marriage for today’s reader. — Anna Bogen in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Thinking Reed remains an important and thoughtful exploration of relationships, class, and marriage for today’s reader. — Anna Bogen in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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