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Sharp

Sharp

Dean, Michelle

Paperback

Literary FiguresFiction AnthologiesWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0802129242
ISBN13: 9780802129246
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Feb 19 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Widely praised in hardcover, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten exceptional women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules.

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 testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.

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