Publication date: 2008-03-15
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.11
Review Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones / Duke University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 942.054092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.98
Review Mary Tudor (Women in History) / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 791.43028092273
RRP: £11.99
Price: £22.59
Review Hollywood Divas: The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous / McGraw-Hill Contemporary:
Publication date: 2004-10-27
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £9.01
Price: £4.55
Review So You Want to Be a Woman: A Transsexual's Guide / Trafford Publishing:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 2003-03-28
Dewey code: 362.41092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.79
Review The Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics) (Dover Large Print Classics) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 1997-06-30
Dewey code: 305.40902
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.11
Review Uppity Women of Medieval Times / Conari Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £112.45
Review Touching Tibet / Travellerseye:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-05-06
Price: £7.99
Review Medicine Dream: A Woman's Encounter with the Healing Realms of Don Juan / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-04-01
Dewey code: 221.92
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.29
Review Creative Bible Lessons from the Old Testament: 12 Character Studies of Surprisingly Modern Men and Women (Creative Bible Lessons): 12 Character Studies ... Men and Women (Creative Bible Lessons) / Zondervan Publishing House:
Publication date: 2008-07-29
Dewey code: 221
RRP: £8.03
Price: £4.19
Review Esther: A Woman of Strength & Dignity (Great Lives from God's Word) / Thomas Nelson Publishers:
Creator: David Tamura
Publication date: 1987-09
Dewey code: 299.70924
RRP: £9.47
Price: £14.22
Review Crystal Woman: The Sisters of the Dreamtime / Frederick Warne & Co:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-15
Dewey code: 828.91209
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.31
Review Sunlight on the Lawn (Merry Hall Trilogy) (Beverley Nichols Trilogy) / Timber Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-07-05
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.18
Review Unaccompanied Women / Vintage:
Authors
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Publication date: 1995-10
Dewey code: 271.97
Price: £12.26
Review Simple Path / Ballantine Books:
Publication date: 2007-04-05
Dewey code: 950
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01
Review Walking on My Hands, Out of India the Teenage Years / Hodder Children's Books:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2004-10-18
Dewey code: 364.152309759
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.54
Review Lethal Intent / Zebra Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-01
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.67
Review Renoir, My Father (NYRB Classics) / New York Review Books:
Publication date: 2006-05-25
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.00
Review A Stranger on the Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan / Peter Owen Ltd:
Publication date: 1996-10-10
Dewey code: 982.062092
Price: £10.55
Review Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 616.890092
RRP: £9.10
Price: £20.95
Review Girl, Interrupted / Turtle Bay Books:Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a psychiatric award in 1967. Sylvia Plath was a patient at the same hospital in the early 1950s so inevitably comparisons have been made between Plath's The Bell Jar and Kaysen's novel-both recounting a young woman's descent into insanity. This, however, is where the similarities end-The Bell Jar is a haunting and lyrical book; Girl, Interrupted is a more hard-edged, documentary-style narrative. It has none of the beauty and poetry of Plath's prose and is more akin to Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation , an up-to-date memoir of a young girl's struggle with depression and drugs. Both these books offer a brutal and stark image of a life of mental illness. Kaysen's account goes further and questions the standard notions of sanity and insanity. Her plausible voice allows the reader to accept a world where time is distorted, chaos reigns and questions are left unanswered, capturing perfectly the sense of helplessness and frustration felt by these women. The book's gritty realism is also heightened by copies of the author's original medical reports lodged between the chapters. However, it is her penetrating insights into those around her, from those cared for to the caretakers, that make "Girl, Interrupted" so potent. Lacing her narrative with a hard-edged, sardonic sting, she introduces us to a cast of characters from the outrageous Lisa to the chicken-hoarding Daisy to the Martian's girlfriend: Daisy was a seasonal event. [+]She came before Thanksgiving and stayed through Christmas every year. "Would anyone like to share?" the head nurse asked. "Me! Me! Somebody who was a Martian's girlfriend and also had a little penis of her own, which she was eager to show off, raised a hand; nobody wanted to share with her. "Girl, Interrupted" is a credible and creditable chronicle of the lives of women in the 1960s who, through the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of society, were contained and monitored for not fitting into the "norm", the mainstream. Nicola Perry.
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Mary Tudor (Women in History), Hollywood Divas: The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous, So You Want to Be a Woman: A Transsexual's Guide, The Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics) (Dover Large Print Classics), Uppity Women of Medieval Times, Touching Tibet, Medicine Dream: A Woman's Encounter with the Healing Realms of Don Juan, Creative Bible Lessons from the Old Testament: 12 Character Studies of Surprisingly Modern Men and Women (Creative Bible Lessons): 12 Character Studies ... Men and Women (Creative Bible Lessons), Esther: A Woman of Strength & Dignity (Great Lives from God's Word), Crystal Woman: The Sisters of the Dreamtime, Sunlight on the Lawn (Merry Hall Trilogy) (Beverley Nichols Trilogy), Unaccompanied Women, Simple Path, Walking on My Hands, Out of India the Teenage Years, Lethal Intent, Renoir, My Father (NYRB Classics), A Stranger on the Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan, Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron, Girl, Interrupted |
