Fast Fallen Women by Gina Barreca
Memoir. Confession. Humor.
Lived-experience. Intimate Revelations. Professional Discoveries.
Survival. Pleasure. Triumph.
Fast Fallen Women introduces 75 new essays about the dangerous and enthralling ways women fall--and how we get back on our feet, more deft, more decisive, and daring than ever. Holding a compact mirror up to life with the same curiosity that enveloped Eve when she once held the apple, editor Gina Barreca's latest inclusive collection of short, sharp, feminist pieces illuminate women's courage, curiosity, and wit.
With new and original works by:
· Amy Tan
· Jane Smiley
· Caroline Leavitt
· Bobbie Ann Mason
· Honor Moore
· Darien Hsu Gee
· Ilene Beckerman
· and Lynn Peril
--alongside other ground-breaking journalists, novelists, and writers, you'll find emerging authors whose creative non-fiction is appearing on the page for the first time--you will find within these pages a celebration the fallen woman the long overdue.
Fast Fallen Women gives whispered conversation a full voice.
GINA BARRECA, a UConn professor, co-authored I'm With Stupid: One Man, One Woman, and 10,000 Years of Misunderstandings Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up with Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten and published Babes in Boyland, They Used to Call Me Snow White but I Drifted. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, but now resides in Storrs, Connecticut. So there you have it.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781954907782 |
| ISBN 10 | 1954907788 |
| Title | Fast Fallen Women |
| Author | Gina Barreca |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Woodhall Press |
| Year published | 2023-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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