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...Mother and Two Daughters, Godwin...
...Even now, many top officials, from the White House to Capitol Hill, would like to see these troublesome issues continue to simmer and sputter on a conveniently distant backburner. Conservative leaders, however, are in no mood to wait any longer. "Our patience is wearing a bit thin," says Ronald Godwin of the Moral Majority. So Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the New Right's Senate shepherd, has insisted that Majority Leader Howard Baker keep his pledge to provide Senate time for a full debate on the social agenda early in this session...
...MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS by Gail Godwin; Viking...
...four earlier novels and a collection of short stories, Author Gail Godwin, 44, has presented a distinctive gallery of rogues, female, troubled and courageous. They tend to have Southern backgrounds, with all the accompanying luggage of traditions and social forms, and an unsettling inclination to think and act on their own (Godwin was raised in Asheville, N.C., and has taught English and creative writing at Vassar and Columbia, among other places). The author's fifth novel repeats previous patterns on a grander scale: more main characters, broader swatches of life to dazzle and puzzle them...
None of these problems is unique, of course, in fact or fiction, and Godwin never claims otherwise. She does make the three women who face them singularly interesting. They are all intelligent enough to wish, sometimes, that they were less so. Nell would like to blend comfortably into the extending circle of Southern widows in her town, but her acerbic side keeps her at a slight, disquieting remove. Cate periodically feels the urge to "lapse wearily" into a man's care and then bristles angrily at her own weakness. Lydia tries to organize herself into happiness, knowing that each...