The Abduction (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxine Winokur
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: The northeastern United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Character study
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, 1960’s, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Self, Guilt, Poverty or poor people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Jews or Jewish life, Liberalism, Kidnapping, Women’s movement, Boys
- Locales: Northeast (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Lucy Starr, a forty-two-year-old educational consultant, teacher, and social activist. Lucy is the reader’s point-of-view character for most of the novel, excepting those elements told through Theodore’s interior monologue. Lucy is a member of the cultured, highly educated, white upper middle class whose social and political liberalism dominated the major cities of the Northeast for many years. Lucy has been successful in her career, but her personal life remains oddly unresolved. A committed, self-conscious liberal flourishing amid the upheavals of the...
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