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A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition.Thurman is one ...

A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, a writer "blessed with intellectual curiosity, a sharp wit and unwillingness to receive opinions" (The New York Times). Judith Thurman, a National Book Award-winning biographer and essayist, and a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles from the past fifteen years in A Left-Handed Woman. Her subjects are greatly varied, ranging fro...

Judith Thurman's brilliant, National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen-now with a new foreword by the authorA brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen's magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic wor...

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1900de Parisli ünlü bir ahlaksizin cocuk yastaki gelini olarak taninan tasrali güzel, cagdas genc kizi anlatan bir hikaye yazarak Belle Epoqueyu büyülüyordu. Parlak bir sahne kariyeriyle birleserek o eski köylü kizini asrin ilk gercek süper yildizi yapan ve cogunluk tarafindan begenilen ama ayni zamanda da elestirel alkislar toplayan romanlar dizisinin ilkiydi bu.Oysa Fransanin en büyük ve en cok adi cikmis romanci ve kisilerinden biri olarak ...

Throughout her highly public life Colette rewrote the rules for loving, working and aging. From the early novels (signed as her husband's) to the end of her marriage, lesbian affair with a Marquise, and raucous stage career, her life and work still challenge the norms of society. "...stays supremely in control of her wild, bold, brilliant and often obnoxious subject" Hermione Lee (biographer of Virginai Woolf).

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A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture."A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style."-The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD...

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) fue la primera mujer moderna del siglo XX. Su fascinante vida arranca en la época del decadentismo de finales del siglo XIX y termina en los años cincuenta, rodeada de gatos en un lujoso apartamento de París, después de pasar por los escenarios, ambientes, movimientos artísticos y hechos históricos más destacados de su tiempo: los salones mundanos de la Belle Époque, el ambiente del Lesbos finisecular, el ...

This exuberant gathering of essays and profiles represents 20 years of Thurmans celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and womens work--from haute couture to literature to commanding empires.

Winner of the National Book Award A brilliant literary portrait, "Isak Dinesen" remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, "Out of Africa, " established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and...