A historical portrait of one woman's quest for happiness amid a
lifetime of bad men.
There Are Victories is a proto-feminist, anti-Bildungsroman that
explores the intersections of misogyny, class, religion, and prejudice
within upper class Anglo-Montreal and New York City society before,
during, and after WWI. Originally published in 1933, There Are
Victories takes up the catastrophe of the home front and the ways in
which the life--and happiness--of the novel's protagonist, Ruth
Courtney, is continually undermined by the bad behaviour of men. This
new edition features a foreword by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner
Johanna Skibsrud.