Edition: 6th Revised edition
Publication date: 2007-10-18
Dewey code: 920.7209051
RRP: £320.00
Price: £303.62
Review International Who's Who of Women 2008 / Europa Publications Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 346.1532092
Price: £6.96
Review Lucky / Back Bay Books:
Edition: 2nd Ed
Publication date: 1985-08-01
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £11.00
Review Moments of Being / Harcourt Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-11-03
Dewey code: 289.3092
RRP: £10.55
Price: £5.03
Review Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-05-06
Dewey code: 972.082092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Memories / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2006-11-13
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.89
Review Considering Doris Day / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-05-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.25
Review Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death / Doubleday:
Publication date: 2007-09-13
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.49
Review Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China / Oneworld Publications:
Edition: 1st Perennial Library Ed
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 818.5409
Price: £7.82
Review An American Childhood / HarperPerennial:
Authors
- Hilary Macaskill
- Molly Wood
Publication date: 2006-04-01
Dewey code: 914.4810484
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.85
Review Downhill All the Way: Walking with Donkeys on the Stevenson Trail / Frances Lincoln Publishers:
Publication date: 2008-09-09
Dewey code: 306.7092
RRP: £24.95
Price: £8.10
Review No Man's Land / Viking Books:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-20
Dewey code: 294.39230922
RRP: £11.50
Price: £6.96
Review Women of Wisdom / Snow Lion Publications:Author of Women of Wisdom, Tsultrim Allione is one of the first American women to be ordained a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. But blazing a trail for Buddhist women in the West required models of great women practitioners. In the first book of its kind, Allione brings together the biographies of six women mystics in this strong but little-known Tibetan tradition. Make that seven women, as Allione expands her own spiritual autobiography into 80 pages in this new printing. The dakini principle, the principle of feminine transformation, pervades each of these stories. A woman is beaten by her husband and father-in-law and has her son taken from her but later comes face to face with the boddhisattva Tara and becomes a great teacher. A wife who has always dreamed of practicing the dharma splits from her husband and travels the land receiving teachings. A poor cowherd is given a long-hidden sacred text and becomes dakini, herself. A spiritual biography embodies a teaching, and these stories enchant while successfully transmitting wisdom. -Brian Bruya, Amazon. [+]com.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-09-04
Dewey code: 362.732
Price: £8.91
Review There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-09-05
Dewey code: 979.8052092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.03
Review Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down / Epicenter Press:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-03
Dewey code: 910.4
Price: £15.99
Review Eat, Pray, Love / Viking Press Inc.,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-08-25
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.50
Review Love Never Gives Up / Ecademy Press:
Edition: Ill
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.11
Review The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian / University of Texas Press:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 959.7043083
Price: £8.94
Review The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War / Penguin Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.38
Review The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes / Granta Books:Sylvia Plath committed suicide in February 1963, and since then her poetry, fiction, and, increasingly, her life, have maintained enormous power over readers' imaginations. Biographies continue to appear with regularity, despite the strong hold the Plath estate has on her work. But because of that hold, each biographer has been forced to accommodate the living (Ted Hughes, who was separated from Plath at the time of her death, and his larger-than-life sister, Olwyn, long the executrix), often at the expense of the dead. In 1989, Anne Stevenson's peculiar hybrid, Bitter Fame, was published, complete with an appendix full of devastating memoirs. It was not your average biography. When Janet Malcolm was first sent the book, she was less drawn to it by the Plath legend than by the fact that she had known Stevenson in the 50s, but she soon became captivated by the book's defeatist subtext. The dead woman's voice and writings seemed to overwhelm Stevenson's tentative narrative; and if that wasn't enough, there was also the none-too-angelic choir of those who had known Plath. "These too, said: "Don't listen to Anne Stevenson. She didn't know Sylvia. I knew Sylvia. [+]Let me tell you about her. Read my correspondence with her. Read my memoir. " Bitter Fame was soon garnering some powerfully bad notices, especially that of A. Alvarez in the New York Review of Books. Alvarez, the author of one of the most influential pieces on Plath, in his study of suicide, The Savage God, had some special, personal cards to deal, as have so many others Plath left behind. Because Malcolm's great theme is treachery-that of the interviewer, the journalist, the teller of just about any tale-the Plath mess seemed a perfect fit, and she decided to become a player, too. In 1991, Malcolm was having lunch with Olwyn Hughes in North London, 28 years to the day on which the poet died. This is only one of the coincidences in The Silent Woman, a postmodern biography par excellence, which is less about the drama of Plath's life and still controversial death than about their continuing effect on the living. For Malcolm, all cards are wild, each one revealing more complexity, human cravenness, and, above all, brilliantly playful aperçus about human agency and writing's deceptions. I look forward to the dictionary of quotations that foregrounds the elegant "The pleasure of hearing ill of the dead is not a negligible one, but it pales before the pleasure of hearing ill of the living. " And then there's: "Memory is notoriously unreliable; when it is intertwined with ill will, it may be monstrously unreliable. The "good" biographer is supposed to be able to discriminate among the testimonies of witnesses and have his antennae out for tendentious distortions, misrememberings and outright lies. It's clear that Malcolm doesn't see herself as a "good" biographer- she openly declares her allegiance, but is more than capable of changing it and of showing her cards. Or is she? In the end, The Silent Woman, is a stunning inquiry into the possibility of ever really knowing anything save that "the game continues. ".
Publication date: 2003-05-28
Dewey code: 362.196994490092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.32
Review Writing My Way Through Cancer / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
| Models & Brands:
International Who's Who of Women 2008, Lucky, Moments of Being, Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy, Memories, Considering Doris Day, Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death, Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China, An American Childhood, Downhill All the Way: Walking with Donkeys on the Stevenson Trail, No Man's Land, Women of Wisdom, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down, Eat, Pray, Love, Love Never Gives Up, The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian, The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Writing My Way Through Cancer |
