Difficult Women: A Memoir Of Three
by David Plante /
2017 / English / EPUB
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David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in
the literary world, now back in print for the first time in
decades.
David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in
the literary world, now back in print for the first time in
decades.
Difficult Women
Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary,
complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising
intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the
character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant
portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait
of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of
presents portraits of three extraordinary,
complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising
intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the
character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant
portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait
of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication ofThe Wide
Sargasso Sea
The Wide
Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great
novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained
genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to
be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and
staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room
that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on.
Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless
victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable,
brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through
the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring
companion, right.
, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great
novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained
genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to
be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and
staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room
that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on.
Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless
victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable,
brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through
the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring
companion, right.