Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho (eBook, ePUB)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 - Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a book 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 woman - that also offers hope for our present, and our futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Galley Beggar Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913111281
• Artikelnr.: 64305396

Autorenporträt

Selby Wynn Schwartz is the author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. Her novella, A Life in Chameleons, won the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award.