After Sappho (eBook)

Selby Wynn Schwartz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
288 Seiten
Galley Beggar Press (Verlag)
978-1-913111-28-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Alice B. Toklas • classics • Colette • Dancers • Delphic Festival • Divine Sarah • Eleonora Duse • Eva Palmer • female • feminist • Fiction • Gertrude Stein • Greek • Hogarth Press • Isadora Duncan • Jazz • Jazz Age • Josephine Baker • L'Académie des Femmes • Lesbian • LGB • LGBTQ+ • Lina Poletti • Love • Mrs Dalloway • Natalie Clifford Barney • Orlando • Radclyffe Hall • Renée Vivien • Romaine Brooks • Sapphic • Sappho • Sarah Bernhardt • sculpture • Sibilla Aleramo • Una donna • Una Troubridge • Virginia Woolf • well of loneliness • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-913111-28-8 / 1913111288
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913111-28-1 / 9781913111281