Selby Wynn Schwartz: After Sappho

Cover: 9781913111397 | After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz | Taschenbuch | 288 S. | Englisch

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It''s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her - and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting - and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller - and fuller. Sarah Bernhardt - Colette - Eleanora Duse - Lina Poletti - Josephine Baker... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past - their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	288 S.
ISBN-13:	9781913111397
ISBN-10:	1913111393
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schwartz, Selby Wynn
Hersteller:	Galley Beggar Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	195 x 128 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Selby Wynn Schwartz
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2023
Gewicht:	0,256 kg