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Lucy: A Novel
Lucy A Novel
Author: Ellen Feldman
An utterly absorbing novel about a famous political marriage and an epic infidelity. On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, fell in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbled on their letters and divorce was discussed, but h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393051537
ISBN-10: 0393051536
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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In this fictionalized portrayal of FDR's affair with Lucy Mercer, Lucy does not come across to me as a likable person. She is a disturbing blend of naivete and callousness, both selfish and arrogant in her conviction that she can give Roosevelt what Eleanor cannot.


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