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Difficult Women

Af: David Plante, Scott Spencer Engelsk Paperback

Difficult Women

Af: David Plante, Scott Spencer Engelsk Paperback
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David Plante''s dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.
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David Plante''s dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 184
ISBN-13: 9781681371498
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1681371499
Kategori: Biografier: skønlitterære forfattere
Udg. Dato: 26 sep 2017
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 26 sep 2017
Forfatter(e): David Plante, Scott Spencer
Forfatter(e) David Plante, Scott Spencer

Kategori Biografier: skønlitterære forfattere

ISBN-13 9781681371498

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 184

Udgave

Længde 11mm

Bredde 203mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 26 sep 2017

Oplagsdato 26 sep 2017

Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc