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Available
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Publication
NYRB Classics (2001), Edition: New Ed, 205 pages
Description
A major writer's reckoning with the realtions between men and women, women and writing, writing and life
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LibraryThing member ifjuly
Hardwick's one of my favorite literary critics now that I've managed to read this. She is spot on, resists being generically or blandly glib, and is female-mind-oriented without being dismissive or exclusive about it. And sharp, so sharp, and a hell of a sentence-structurer to boot. The best kind
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LibraryThing member marilib
essays on: The Brontës, Ibsen's Women, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, Jane Carlyle.
Quote: "It is a question whether there is such a things as seduction when the affections play a part" (p. 185)
Quote: "It is a question whether there is such a things as seduction when the affections play a part" (p. 185)
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Arts and Letters — 1975)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1974
Physical description
7.98 inches
ISBN
0940322781 / 9780940322783