Waverly Place

by Susan Brownmiller

Book Overview

A first novel by the author of "Against our Will" and "Femininity". It is a fictional account of wife-battering and child-killing based on the infamous and widely publicized Steinberg/Nussbaum case... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802110908
• ISBN13: 9780802110909
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wow!

Powerful, disturbing, gripping. This is a novel about one woman's endurance of long-term (15 years) emotional, psychological, and physical abuse and her decline from a productive, working member of society to an abused, deflated, shell of the woman she once was. The story speaks for itself.