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Cargando... How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much (2014)por Samantha Ellis
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Such an ingenious way to frame memoir, through the books you loved as you grew up. This is a book about an interesting woman and the fictional women that influenced her and kept her company along the way. I also picked up quite a few books recs from this. ( ) The author, a playwright and a first-generation Iraqi Jew raised in London, views her life history through the lens of fictional heroines. I gleaned some new insights from the literary criticism at the heart of this book, but I couldn’t get past the gimmicky vibe of a grown woman searching for a role model in the pages of fiction. I can accept that the author may have experienced a delayed adolescence as a result of her sheltered upbringing. However, adults in their mid- to late-thirties should be past the stage of life where you try on different personality traits until you find your niche. I suspect that’s true for this author, and that her life story is retrofitted to the pitch for this book. Oh this book! I really feared to read it -- that it would be dull, that it would be sappy or disappointing. But no. Samantha successfully holds the balance between personal memoir and literary critique. It's wonderful to read, and delightful to watch her intelligent, thoughtful reexaminations of the books that had such emotional impact for her growing up. Not only does it make me want to rexamine some of my own heroines, it's finally a feel-good woman's book that doesn't end in marriage, or rely on romantic love for personal completion. I always wondered what that would look like, and it's something of a relief to find it so beautifully triumphant. Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss. Listas de sobresalientes
"Debating literature's greatest heroines with a friend, playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--"My whole life, I'd been trying to be Cathy, when I should have been trying to be Jane." With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladies--the characters and the writers--whom she has loved since childhood. From early obsessions with the March sisters to later idolizations of Sylvia Plath, Ellis evaluates how her heroines stack up today. And, just as she excavates the stories of her favorite characters, Ellis also shares a frank, often humorous account of her own life growing up in a tight-knit Iraqi Jewish community in London. Reflecting on the girls, the women, and the books that she loves the most, here a life-long reader explores how these heroines have shaped all of our lives"--
"A young writer explores what some of the greatest women in literature have meant to her--and how these timeless characters still serve as a guide for the way we lead our lives"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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