cover image On Her Own: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American Dream

On Her Own: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American Dream

Ruth Sidel. Penguin Books, $12.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014670-7

Interviews with more than 150 females, ages 12 to early 40s, show that women today have formed new versions of the American dream based on independence and ``having it all'' in both the workplace and the home. PW described this as a ``provocative and informative'' study. Author tour. (Jan.)