Anywoman
Description:... This is the story of men and women who dwell in the vast anonymity of "average people," and it is the story of Rose Cologne in particular. The lovely small town in which she lived, her family, the man she married, the man she did not marry, were average. But every human being is unto himself a universe. And Rose Cologne, unremarkable except perhaps for the degree of her unremarkableness, was as simple and as complex as all human universes. Inarticulate, unprofound, certainly not the stuff of which heroines are made, she yet had within her forces which were one day to sweep her with grand passions. And she was not without her small grandeurs. Certainly her life was the antithesis of grandeur. She was not born out of time or out of place. In tune with mediocrity, she asked little more than the idyllic environment which the Catskill Mountains spread about her, the small routines of her mountain village, and the simplicities of the home life she enjoyed with her family. The future beckoned nicely. A young local doctor fitted into her tidy scheme of a right world. Then Rose Cologne ran head-on into the swarthy storm center of a man named Frank Caesar, an another Rose -- undreamed of, unsuspected, indeed unwanted -- seemed to spring full-grown from her own brow. This second Rose Cologne then takes over her story, leading it into fearful and wonderful directions.
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