Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art Of Having An Opinion - (lib

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Nombre: Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Grove Press

DESCRIPCIÓN:

The ten brilliant women who are the focus ofSharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work. These ten women--Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm--are united by what Dean calls "sharpness," the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing in a climate where women were treated with extreme condescension by the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world. Críticas Praise for Sharp: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR's "Fresh Air", the San Francisco Chronicle, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by BuzzFeed "[A] timely new book . . . a group biography of sorts, tracing a dozen female writers--from Dorothy Parker to Janet Malcolm--whose reviews, essays and other works compose a rough history of American thought from the 1920s to the '80s . . . Dean deftly and often elegantly traces these women's arguments about race, politics and gender . . . The book is consistently entertaining and often truly provocative--especially for anyone who makes or loves art or literature . . . urgent in its own right."--Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times "In Sharp, Ms. Dean has pulled off a much rarer achievement: She's written an entertaining and erudite cultural history of selected female thinkers who 'came up in a world that was not eager to hear women's opinions about anything.' Indeed, Ms. Dean herself performs the work of a public intellectual by doing justice to the substance of her subjects' work, while also conveying--through her own wit and lively opinions--why their work matters. This is a book designed to stir up discussion and dissension in its readers, beginning on the very first page of its preface . . . There's so much more to savor, ruminate on, learn from and, certainly, argue with in this splendid book. Sharp embodies the work of its subjects and manages the difficult intellectual and narrative feat of linking a bunch of disparate women writers, not via their topical interests, but by their sensibility: that of writers, with one foot in the mainstream of the American intellectual culture that men made, and one foot outside, sometimes by their own decision, and sometimes not. And each one of them, in this wonderful telling, is very much an intellectual and a writer to be heard."--Maureen Corrigan, Wall Street Journal "Sharp is a dinner party you want to be at . . . Dean's literary bash is as stimulating and insightful as its roster of guests. She not only encapsulates their biographies and achievements with remarkable concision, but also connects the dots between them . . . Sharp is a wonderful celebration of some truly gutsy, brilliant women."--Heller McAlpin, NPR "[Sharp] is, of course, a compliment with an edge . . . A virtue of [Dean's] book is that it shows how each woman, by wielding a pen as if it were a scalpel or a scimitar, confounded the gende

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Dean, Michelle
-Editorial: Grove Press
-N° Paginas: 384
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780802125095
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defectos de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0802125093
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Grove Press
Titulo del libro: Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Dean, Michelle
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 384
ISBN-13: 9780802125095
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780802125095