Commitment Author:Julie Ellis Carol Simon is nine years old when the Stock Market Crash of '29 plunges the nation into depression -- and shatters Carol's young life. Overnight, this child of wealth and privilege is thrust into a world of hardship and struggle. — But through all the harsh years of deprivation, Carol lives for only one dream: to become an architect. Aft... more »er being forced into a loveless marriage that leaves her a widow at seventeen, she finally claims her niche in Manhattan's Greenwich Village -- and finds love with a brilliant, mercurial playwright.
From World War II through the McCarthy Era and beyond, from New York to the rapidly changing new South, Carol struggles to forge a future in a man's field and to hold onto her dreams...dreams she will see carried into the future...passionate dreams of courage, commitment and love.« less