The Half-Sisters [Paperback]

A flawless novel of manners, women and love. . . .Not only consistently entertaining but a valid and incisive picture of how married women of that in-between generationin their forties now, too young to have known the high-kicking 20s, too old to be part of the 60s revoltare coming to terms with the new feminism. In this fine second novel, Cynthia Propper Seton seems on her way to becoming an American Doris Lessingthat mistress of self-exploring fictiononly softer voiced, less heavy-handed. . .the two of them half-sisters, you might say. Mary Ellin Barrett,Mrs. Setons book has an unflinching with and seriousness and a sustained and subtle intelligence. And it has an ideahalf-sisterhoodwhich may indeed be emblematic of the present state of relations among many women, whether blood sisters or not. Lucy Rosenthal,