Key to a Cottage: An Intimate Story of Confessions and Discovery

by Marian Coe

It's August, 1967, as the first wave of hippies pours into San Francisco for the "Summer of Love," when 17-year-old Rae, a questing innocent from Alabama, traveling with parents, meets two destined to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963334190
• ISBN13: 9780963334190
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Southlore Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

All Women Can Relate!

I read Ms. Coe's book and loved it! The characters are very real and I believe women of all ages can relate to them. If you have lived through the four decades depicted in this book you can relate on every level. If you are young and trying to understand the "flavor" of these years, please read on and discover how a teenager grew up in this era. A fine read!

Helps its reader explore what it means to be a woman

Key To A Cottage is a fluid, inviting feminist contemporary novel that absorbs and creates its own artistic context. It will appeal to women who remember the events of the past four decades in North America, and the challenge of finding their way in changing and confusing and exciting times. Rae Kendall is the gently Southern born and bred heroine who challenges the female stereotypes of her time while soothing the onlooking members of the previous generation. Deeply attached to her aunt, a powerful and lasting influence on her life, she struggles with issues of single parenthood, free love, financial security, success and its price, sexism, and the meaning of friendship and love. An unerringly authentic historical tone pervades each decade's crises and discoveries. Questions about female identity and the need for dialogue between the sexes are explored. Transcending the age old debate is a rediscovery of the meaning and experience of love. Rae's close friends of both sexes span a wide ideological and geographical spectrum. Key To A Cottage helps its reader explore what it means to be a woman, alive, intelligent, and growing in a series of confusing decades, today.

Helps its reader explore what it means to be a woman

Key To A Cottage, An Intimate Story Of Confessions And Discovery is a fluid, inviting feminist contemporary novel that absorbs and creates its own artistic context. It will appeal to women who remember the events of the past four decades in North America, and the challenge of finding their way in changing and confusing and exciting times.Rae Kendall is the gently Southern born and bred heroine who challenges the female stereotypes of her time while soothing the onlooking members of the previous generation. Deeply attached to her aunt, a powerful and lasting influence on her life, she struggles with issues of single parenthood, free love, financial security, success and its price, sexism, and the meaning of friendship and love. An unerringly authentic historical tone pervades each decade's crises and discoveries. Questions about female identity and the need for dialogue between the sexes are explored. Transcending the age old debate is a rediscovery of the meaning and experience of love. Rae's close friends of both sexes span a wide ideological and geographical spectrum.Key To A Cottage helps its reader explore what it means to be a woman, alive, intelligent, and growing in a series of confusing decades, today.