Flanagan, Mary, — Rose Reason.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991). First Edition. VG in VG DJ. Spanning decades, countries and lies, Flanagan recreates working class Catholics in the 1950, New York's Greenwich Village in th. 60s, expatriate life on a Greek Island in the 1970s amd London toward the end of that decade, brought up in a strict Catholic community of a small Maine factory town and with the conviction that people who treat you well never teach you anything about yourself Rose forms a number of liaisons with the wrong men each adding to the faragility of her self image. Then on a Greek Island she meeet the elusive MIles and follows him to London in pursuit of a relationship that prove both her downfall and the key to her final self-discovery. the author was born in New Hampshire and brought up in Maine amd now lives in London.