| #7969947 in Books | 2004-10-01 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 | .89 x5.20 x7.98l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The Movie is Wonderful, The Book is Even Better.|By iashutterbug|I've seen the Bette Davis movie, and positively loved it. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role. I always wondered more about the middle of the story. Reading the book fills in the middle, give us more of an indication on why these 2 people fall so devotedly in love. What happens in 2 days or so||
"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 ide
"Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!" The film that concludes with Bette Davis's famous words, reaffirmed Davis's own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman's self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty's 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of more than...
You easily download any file type for your device.Now, Voyager (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) | Olive Higgins Prouty. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
