{"product_id":"passionate-minds-women-rewriting-the-world-9780679751137","title":"Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World","description":"With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus.\" ?\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time.\" ?Lorrie Moore, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Roth Pierpont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679751137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/18\/2001 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/09\/2001 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 1085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Roth Pierpont, a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1990, has received a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from New York University. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44411346583667,"sku":"9780679751137","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_45a9c136-56bd-4a5c-b8a8-0213b5683e2f.jpg?v=1772026162","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/passionate-minds-women-rewriting-the-world-9780679751137","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}