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Title: Sharp Condition: New Subtitle: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion Author: Michelle Dean Format: Paperback Type: Paperback ISBN-10: 0349005427 EAN: 9780349005423 ISBN: 9780349005423 Publisher: Fleet Genre: Biography Topic: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships Release Date: 07/02/2019 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 124mm Item Width: 32mm Item Weight: 300g Release Year: 2019 Description: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries it off, showing us the complexities of her fascinating, extraordinary subjects, in print and out in the world. Dean writes with vigor, depth, knowledge and absorption, and as a result Sharp is a real achievement' Meg Wolitzer, New York Times
Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron and Janet Malcolm are just some of the women whose lives intertwined as they cut through twentieth-century cultural and intellectual life in the United States, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the men who so often belittled their work as journalists, novelists, critics and poets. These women are united by their 'sharpness': an accuracy and precision of thought and wit, a claiming of power through their writing.
Sharp is a rich and lively portrait of these women and their world, where Manhattan cocktail parties, fuelled by lethal quantities of both alcohol and gossip, could lead to high-stakes slanging matches in the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is fascinating and revealing on how these women came to be so influential in a climate in which they were routinely met with condescension and derision by their male counterparts.
Michelle Dean mixes biography, criticism and cultural and social history to create an enthralling exploration of how a group of brilliant women became central figures in the world of letters, staked out territory for themselves and began to change the world. Missing Information?
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