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About Women by Lisa Alther
A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women--one American and one French--on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood.
About Women is their extended conversation in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, and their views on love, style, self-invention, feminism, and child rearing. They also discuss the creative impulse and the importance of art as they ponder what it means to be a woman.
LISA ALTHER was born in the state of Tennessee in 1944. Her first novel, Kinflicks (1975), a feminist coming-of-age story that broke new ground in terms of what could be written and discussed, is well-known. She's also written seven other works of fiction, a memoir, and a story about the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Her works have been translated into seventeen languages and have topped bestseller lists all over the world. FRANOISE GILOT was born in Paris in the year 1921.
She was a member of the newly formed School of Paris. She met Pablo Picasso in 1943 and had a decade-long relationship with him. She is the author of Living with Picasso, which has been translated into over a dozen languages, as well as Matisse and Picasso and other works. She married Luc Simon, a French painter, and then Jonas Salk, an American vaccine pioneer.
Several institutions throughout the world include Gilot's work in their collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She was given the titles of Chevalier and Officier de la Légion d'honneur.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385539869 |
| ISBN 10 | 038553986X |
| Title | About Women |
| Author | Lisa Alther |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Nan A Talese |
| Year published | 2015-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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