{"product_id":"9781922458612","title":"After Sappho","description":"Author: Schwartz, Selby Wynn \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922458612 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2022 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 288 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 22mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'After Sappho is superb. Mesmerizing. Such incredible writing. And thinking. Selby Wynn Schwartz tips everyone out of the water.' Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted novels \u003c\/i\u003eSwimming Home\u003ci\u003e and \u003c\/i\u003eHot Milk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her-the man she has been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name and, alongside it, her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1923, Virginia Woolf writes- \u003ci\u003eI want to make life fuller and fuller\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, \u003ci\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Bernhardt, Colette, Eileen Gray, Lina Poletti- these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny, \u003ci\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past-and offers hope for our present, and our futures.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667936600222,"sku":"UBD-9781922458612","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922458612.jpg?v=1751333167","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922458612","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}