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Apology for the Woman Writing (Hardcover)

by Jenny Diski (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (6 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844083853
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844083855
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 406,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A compelling and complex tale . . . Diski's prose is elegant and visceral . . . Like all good historical fiction, APOLOGY FOR THE WOMAN WRITING not only illuminates an undeservedly little-known episode of literary history, it also demonstrates a rare subtlety and sense of moral ambiguity of restrained devotion transformed by the writer's incisive eye, into art' --Josephine Balmer, THE TIMES


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'Diski has cleverly adapted the historical sources to fashion an exceedingly literary novel . . . Diski's cool, modulated prose exhibits the moderation so prized by Montaigne, and Marie's fate offers a salutary warning to those of us who love books that there can be a danger in loving them too much'
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insidious, intelligent, inspired, 25 April 2009
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As a huge fan of Jenny Diski's "Skating to Antarctica" who had not yet read any of her fiction, I bought this to see what I had been missing. Quite a lot, it turned out. This recreation of a life in Renaissance France - the largely imagined story of a woman writer inspired by the great Montaigne to live by her pen, eventually taking liberties beyond the call of common sense - inches into the bloodstream stealthily, increasingly powerfully, completely convincingly. Diski's skill in creating a credible psychology- an apology - is stunning, and the tenderness upon which the whole conceit hangs is, after the slow-burn of Diski's astringency and ruthless lack of partisanship for her protagonists - moving and compassionate. I loved this book.
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