Living Room — Sol Stein

Originally published in 1974, this landmark novel is available in ebook format for the first time.


Shirley Hartman, at twenty-eight, was the star of Madison Avenue, a woman who'd made it to the top in the male-dominated advertising game. Beauty, brains, fame, love…yet there she was, standing on a lonely rooftop, contemplating suicide. Had Shirley pushed too hard and reached too far -- or can this extraordinary woman break out to some living room beyond career success and the usual arrangements with a man?


“Shirley Hartman is as much a feminist as Portia, Becky Sharp or Scarlett O'Hara. In her, Stein has created a heroine yearning for that living space that men and women need after social and financial triumph. The kind of novel one keeps on ready.”

-- New Republic


“A roller coaster reader ride. Shirley Hartman is a ball of fire you are not likely to forget.”

-- John Barkham Reviews