This is NOT a Book Club Edition.

The story is set in old immigrant Brooklyn and follows several protagonists, the most key of which is Maggie-Now. The trial and tribulations of life and the dance of the givers vs. the takers.

In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness. With characteristic warmth, compelling insight, and easy, conversational prose, Betty Smith's Maggie-Now poignantly illuminates one woman's struggles and successes as she grapples with timeless questions of desire, duty, self-sacrifice, and the quest for fulfillment. Maggie-Now is an unforgettable masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's greatest talents.

A hardcover book with dust jacket. Size: 437 pages. 8 OE  x 5 oe  x 1 oe  

Publisher Harper & Brothers 1958 This is NOT a Book Club Edition.