The Tenth Month

Fülszöveg

In her first great best seller, Gentle-
man s Agreement, which has sold
over two million copies to date, Laura
Z. Hobson dealt memorably with the
prejudice of anti-Semitism. Now, in
her newest novel, The Tenth Month,
Mrs. Hobson deals with another kind
of prejudice—one far more subtle,
emotional and pervasive—the preju-
dice that society is guilty of when it
forces a single rigid code of morality
on all human beings.
The Tenth Month is the story of an
illegitimate pregnancy, but not among
the Swinging young." It is the story
of Theodora Gray, a woman who has
been told she can never have children,
but now—after ten years of divorce
and at the amiable end of one of her
infrequent affairs—suddenly discov-
ers that she is pregnant.
Dori Gray is not bothered by feel-
ings of shame or self-reproach. She
is delighted, and determined to have
her baby. But another kind of di-
lemma poses itself: even before she is
certain she is actually pregnant, Dori
falls in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In her first great best seller, Gentle-
man s Agreement, which has sold
over two million copies to date, Laura
Z. Hobson dealt memorably with the
prejudice of anti-Semitism. Now, in
her newest novel, The Tenth Month,
Mrs. Hobson deals with another kind
of prejudice—one far more subtle,
emotional and pervasive—the preju-
dice that society is guilty of when it
forces a single rigid code of morality
on all human beings.
The Tenth Month is the story of an
illegitimate pregnancy, but not among
the Swinging young." It is the story
of Theodora Gray, a woman who has
been told she can never have children,
but now—after ten years of divorce
and at the amiable end of one of her
infrequent affairs—suddenly discov-
ers that she is pregnant.
Dori Gray is not bothered by feel-
ings of shame or self-reproach. She
is delighted, and determined to have
her baby. But another kind of di-
lemma poses itself: even before she is
certain she is actually pregnant, Dori
falls in love with Matthew Poole, a
lawyer who is married and the de-
voted father of two children. Should
she tell him she is pregnant by another
man? If she tells him, how will he
take it? Will Dori become another
"problem case," or will Matthew's
own strength and humanity prevail
and let him respect the rightness of
her decision to have her child?
The story takes place in New York,
and the year is 1968 —a year filled
with riots, violence and assassination.
Against this backdrop of destruction
and death, there is Dori's pregnancy
and the baby's birth, "the systole and
diastole forever."
The Tenth Month is an unforget-
table story, told with remarkable
perception and warmth. The acute
observation and generosity of feeling
that so illuminated Laura Z. Hob-
son's celebrated Gentleman s Agree-
ment and First Papers are even more
strikingly evident in her latest novel. Vissza