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After Sappho : Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Selby Wynn Schwartz; Text Publishing is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers from the past, as they battle for control over their lives, for liberation and for justice.Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho hails the female torchbearers of the late 19th and early 20th century. WHAT did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. Sarah Bernhardt - Colette - Eleanora Duse - Lina Poletti - Josephine Baker - Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny - in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a work that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past - and also offers hope for our present, and our futures."A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together take shape as an intergenerational tale of the Lesbian family. An ancestry eruditely, playfully recovered." - The 2022 Man Booker Prize JudgesSelby Wynn Schwartz is already an award-winning writer, but with After Sappho she joins that select band of authors who have been longlisted for the Bo

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Author

Selby Wynn Schwartz; Text Publishing

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781913111236

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Contemporary Fiction, Fiction