Norton Book of Women's Lives

von Phyllis Rose

832 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famous-Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf-and the surprising-Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer; Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama "granny" midwife; Sara Suleri, an expatriate in America who reflects hilariously on the language of food in her native Pakistan."Destined to become a classic,"¿ this treasury of women's lives, brimming with intelligence, passion, wit, and determination, is a celebration of life itself.*Hungry Mind Review**Washington Post Book World¿Library Journal

• ISBN: 9780393312904
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1995
• Größe: 228 x 142 mm
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company