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The Resource Difficult women : a memoir of three, David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer, (electronic resource)
Difficult women : a memoir of three, David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante's portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys's great novels of the 1920s and '30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781681371504
- Label
- Difficult women : a memoir of three
- Title
- Difficult women
- Title remainder
- a memoir of three
- Statement of responsibility
- David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante's portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys's great novels of the 1920s and '30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Plante, David
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.L257
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Spencer, Scott
- Series statement
- New York Review Books classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Plante, David
- Rhys, Jean
- Orwell, Sonia
- Greer, Germaine
- Women
- Novelists, American
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- Label
- Difficult women : a memoir of three, David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer, (electronic resource)
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- Control code
- on1004832495
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781681371504
- Publisher number
- EB00693244
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 8029B041-7B2F-483E-86E4-F1A337A32CE2
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1004832495
- Label
- Difficult women : a memoir of three, David Plante ; introduction by Scott Spencer, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Control code
- on1004832495
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781681371504
- Publisher number
- EB00693244
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 8029B041-7B2F-483E-86E4-F1A337A32CE2
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1004832495
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