The Bostonians - Brossura

James, Henry

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ISBN 10: 0812969960 ISBN 13: 9780812969962

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2003

Riassunto

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena’s heart and remove her from the limelight?

“The Bostonians has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James,” writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. “It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals . . . [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed—and wildly comic—realism.”

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It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed and wildly comic realism --A. S. Byatt writes in her Introduction

As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. No writer in America had dared the subject before. No one has done it so well since --The New Republic

L'autore:

A. S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and reviewer. Her novels include the Booker Prize–winning Possession, and the quartet The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812969960
• ISBN 13: 9780812969962
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496