Readable and provocative

OBSERVER

The scope and variety on display here should satisfy any reader interested in great literature

SCOTSMAN

An immaculately and exhaustively researched overview of women's writing

FINANCIAL TIMES

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"A writer for every year of the 20th Century': delving into its impressive list of Modern Classics, in Brilliant Careers the feminist publishing house Virago has come up with a new literary anthology of women's writing. From Miles Franklin, the represent

Vicky Lebeau, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW

A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. Add to this another ninety-two brilliant writers a reader can relish the thought of careering between - and all collected together in the one anthology. An international celebration of extracts that chart our time: stories of poverty and wealth, work and play, tales of changing environments - both urban and rural, in peace and wartime. A book of Virago authors with every year of the twentieth century represented by groundbreaker after literary groundbreaker. Brilliant Careers gathers all the energies and circumstances of twentieth-century women writers into the one book, covering ten decades from the century closest to all our hearts, swinging from one end to the other of a hundred years of history and change via the very best of twentieth century fiction.
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* A definitive collection of 101 short pieces from 1900 to 2000 this is an invaluable volume of women's writing this century
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* Review and feature coverage in national press and Women's magazines * To be featured on the Virago website

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781860498428
Publisert
2000-12-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528

Forfatter
Redaktør

Biographical note

KASIA BODDY is a literary critic and lecturer.
ALI SMITH is a novelist and short-story writer.
SARAH WOOD is a writer and filmmaker.