'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir … Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times
How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered that Doris Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, writer and mother in a way that no other novelist had done.
Veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made, Feigel conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. The result is this genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
| ISBN: | 9781408878576 |
| Publication date: | 7th March 2019 |
| Author: | Lara Feigel |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 323 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Feminism and feminist theory Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Biography: philosophy and social sciences Memoirs Biography: general Biographies & Autobiographies |
'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir … Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times
How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered that Doris Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, writer and mother in a way that no other novelist had done.
Veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made, Feigel conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. The result is this genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
Free Woman features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Memoirs, Biography: general, Biographies & Autobiographies
Free Woman is available in Paperback
Free Woman was written by Lara Feigel and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Free Woman has 323 pages
£13.49