After Sappho: A Novel

2023-01-24 Fiction

Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Release : 2023-01-24
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book After Sappho: A Novel written by Selby Wynn Schwartz. This book was released on 2023-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past. “This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport

The Laughter of Aphrodite

1993 Fiction

Author : Peter Green
Release : 1993
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 402/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Laughter of Aphrodite written by Peter Green. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classicist Peter Green recreates here the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. We meet Sappho later in life, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age.

After Sappho

2022-07-15 Fiction

Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Release : 2022-07-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 288/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book After Sappho written by Selby Wynn Schwartz. This book was released on 2022-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. ... In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller. Sarah Bernhardt – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a book as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman – that also offers hope for our present, and our futures.

Sappho's Leap

2013-10-08 Fiction

Author : Erica Jong
Release : 2013-10-08
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 88X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sappho's Leap written by Erica Jong. This book was released on 2013-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying brings the seductive Greek poet to life in this “enormously entertaining” tale (Booklist). As she stands poised at the edge of a precipice in the shadow of the sanctuary of Apollo, the greatest love poet who ever was or ever will be recalls the eventful fifty years that have led her to this moment. It was love that seduced her, at age sixteen, into an ill-fated plot with the poet Alcaeus to depose the despot of the island of Lesbos. It was love that made her trade the unwanted marriage bed of an old, despised, and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female. For Sappho, life has always been a banquet to be savored to the fullest, a strange and sensual odyssey that has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world. Devoted to the goddess Aphrodite and granted the gift of immortal song, she has followed her magnificent destiny from Delphi to Egypt, to the land of the Amazons, the realm of the centaurs, and into the stygian depths of Hades itself, often in the company of her companion and friend, the fabulist slave Aesop. Through every grand affair and every wild adventure, she has remained forever true to her heart, her passion, and herself, right up to this, the end of everything. Combining evocative and realistic detail with unabashedly outrageous invention, Erica Jong’s Sappho’s Leap is a flawless gem of historical fiction boldly imagined by one of America’s most enthralling storytellers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

The Sappho Companion

2010-12-15 Poetry

Author : Margaret Reynolds
Release : 2010-12-15
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sappho Companion written by Margaret Reynolds. This book was released on 2010-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality.This remarkable anthology brilliantly displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson.

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