All Good Women (PDF)

<DIV>Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner&rsquo;s work has appeared in&#160;the <I>Georgia Review</I>, <I>TriQuarterly</I>, <I>Salmagundi</I>, <I>New Letters</I>, <I>Ploughshares</I>, the <I>Village Voice</I>, <I>Prairie Schooner</I>, the <I>Gettysburg Review</I>, the <I>Times Literary Supplement</I>, the <I>Women&rsquo;s Review of Books</I>, the <I>Nation</I>,&#160;and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Dutch. She has won fellowships and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundaci&oacute;n Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website is&#160;<a href="http://www.valerieminer.com/">www.valerieminer.com</a>.<BR /></DIV>

“With laudable perceptiveness, Miner probes issues that are as relevant today as they were forty years ago: the rampant bigotry that deprives Wanda of her father and her liberty; Moira’s uncertain sexual orientation; Ann’s wariness of commitment; and Teddy’s adjustment to her own homosexuality. The novel’s rewarding conclusion also has contemporary overtones, for the women’s hard-won ‘shared sense of potential’ finally guides them safely beyond ‘anguish and loss’ to equanimity.” —Los Angeles Times

“An extraordinary tale of women in wartime. Most novels set in the ’40s are about men fighting World War II. This one is unique in that the protagonists are four young women.” —San Jose Mercury News

“On the huge canvas of World War II we follow the lives and friendships of four women. We follow with passionate interest these interrelated but widely different stories, and as the four women grow, we grow with them. A complex, nourishing work of art.” —May Sarton

“An exceptionally good novel that realistically depicts the personal trauma faced by four young, working-class women at the outbreak of World War II.” —Booklist

“Finally, a World War II novel written from the perspective of women’s lives—and not Hollywood starlets waiting for Johnny to come marching home. All Good Women gives us a broader understanding of an era as well as a deeper awareness of the significance of social forces in our own lives.” —The Seattle Times