Cover will feature Bette Davis in a still from the classic film. Reviews, articles, and cover pix will target travel magazines, women's magazines, style magazines, cruise lines, film magazines, film festivals, Bette David fan web sites, and travel web sites including "Now, Voyager" the world's largest gay travel site. Colorful counter-top "dump" for all six Femmes Fatales titles offered to booksellers. Applying for tabletop display program in Barnes and Noble major stores. August launch party at Now, Voyager bookstore in Provincetown, MA Major BEA push with full color series poster and dump sample. Galley submission with BUNNY LAKE; the two Femmes Fatales make excellent combo for reviewers: both had major film adaptation and both share "mother" theme.
Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including 'Stella Dallas' (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial. A graduate of Smith College, Prouty endowed a writer's scholarship at Smith that was received by Sylvia Plath, who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly in 'The Bell Jar'.
"Like the film it inspired, Olive Higgins Prouty's Now, Voyager is
as striking for the conventions it bucks as for the ones it
embraces: a vivid reminder of a time when people crossed the ocean
in liners and wore hats, and a hymn to an American ideal of social,
moral, and emotional independence."David Leavitt, author of Equal
Affections
"At last we have the moon and the stars: at last, that is, the
public can read a novel on which one of Hollywood's most stirring
melodramas is based. The movie Now, Voyager, a love story as well
as a film about mothers and daughters, has fascinated female,
feminist, and evendespite its heated heterosexual romancelesbian
and gay viewers and critics. The novel promises to enhance our
pleasurable perplexity about the film's many enigmas concerning the
nature of women's most passionate attachments." Tania Modleski,
author of Loving With a Vengeance
"What a satisfying book. At once tough-minded and terribly
romantic, it sweeps us up in an ageless tale of love while
foreshadowing today's notions of sexual liberation, emotional
wholeness, and personal independence. Prouty is a wonderful writer,
and her Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated
Cinderella." Patricia Gaffney, author of The Saving Graces
"Like the film it inspired, Olive Higgins Prouty's Now, Voyager is
as striking for the conventions it bucks as for the ones it
embraces: a vivid reminder of a time when people crossed the ocean
in liners and wore hats, and a hymn to an American ideal of social,
moral, and emotional independence."—David Leavitt, author of Equal
Affections
"At last we have the moon and the stars: at last, that is, the
public can read a novel on which one of Hollywood's most stirring
melodramas is based. The movie Now, Voyager, a love story as well
as a film about mothers and daughters, has fascinated female,
feminist, and even—despite its heated heterosexual romance—lesbian
and gay viewers and critics. The novel promises to enhance our
pleasurable perplexity about the film's many enigmas concerning the
nature of women's most passionate attachments." —Tania Modleski,
author of Loving With a Vengeance
"What a satisfying book. At once tough-minded and terribly
romantic, it sweeps us up in an ageless tale of love while
foreshadowing today's notions of sexual liberation, emotional
wholeness, and personal independence. Prouty is a wonderful writer,
and her Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated
Cinderella." —Patricia Gaffney, author of The Saving Graces
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