{"product_id":"after-sappho-a-novel","title":"After Sappho: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Selby Wynn Schwartz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e After Sappho: A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2023-01-24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. \u003c\/i\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\u003e1902. 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, After Sappho 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324092315\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Selby Wynn Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53356228608307,"sku":"9781324092315","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9781324092315.jpg?v=1778843259","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/after-sappho-a-novel","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}