- Paperback: 318 pages
- Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Reprint edition (1 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679751130
- ISBN-13: 978-0679751137
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.6 x 20.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,539,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art.
Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness.
"Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe
"One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books
Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness.
"Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe
"One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Beautifully-crafted literary portraits
12 April 2000
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What a pleasure to read essays of such distinction! C. R. Pierpont deftly weaves history and biography into her literary judgments and the results are always fascinating and fresh. I couldn't put this book down; more importantly, it sent me running to the authors she studies. (Well, most of the authors; nothing could ever make me slog through Ayn Rand.) Each essay is a jewel of taste, style, and balance. I can't recommend this book highly enough and am sending copies to all my friends!
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
even better than in the new yorker
14 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
I read all these pieces when they first appeared, and couldn't wait to read them all again. All are revised, and several are expanded significantly. Pierpont has a way of combining "life," "works" and "social context" so that they all speak effortlessly of one another. If all critics had her perceptiveness, sympathy and wit, arguments would never have sprung up about what is and isn't relevant to the appreciation of a writer; she makes it all completely natural, while at the same time telling you things you never thought of for yourself.
20 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Passionate Minds, Passionate Writing
5 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
Rivals Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae in breadth and ambition, and surpasses it in elegance. A book that will be read and re-read.
Six stars out of five.
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