Seduction And Betrayal
Women and Literature
$38.69
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
A major writer’s reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits—of Virginia Woolf and Zel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322783 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0940322781 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | NYRB Classics S. |
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About The Author
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.
Joan Didion is the author of the novels Run River, Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, Democracy, and The Last Thing He Wanted. Her nonfiction includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, Miami, After Henry, and Political Fictions.
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