{"product_id":"ornament-and-silence-essays-on-womens-lives-from-edith-wharton-to-germaine-greer-paperback","title":"Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKennedy Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's most revered writers comes \"a brilliant collection\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) about women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families--from Virginia Woolf and Flaubert's mistress to Russian novelist Nina Berberova and English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003etending her English garden and--on every page--delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at \"The New Yorker, tending her English garden and--on every page--delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose. \u003cbr\u003e\"A wonderfully idiosyncratic set of essays on women famous and unknown whose public and private lives Fraser examines with great feeling and exactitude...insight, intelligence, and grace.\"--Newsday \u003cbr\u003e\"Subtlety, fluency, candor, an agile sensate intellect--Kennedy Fraser brings all these gifts to bear on a subject that is not always contemplated so untendentiously, with such independence of mind, and from such a generous and worldly point of view.\"--Phillip Roth\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.55 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45832051523781,"sku":"9780375701122","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/NAyklsKSjJ9780375701122.webp?v=1781230039","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/ornament-and-silence-essays-on-womens-lives-from-edith-wharton-to-germaine-greer-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}