About women : conversations between a writer and a painter /
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| Author / Creator: | Alther, Lisa, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Nan A. Talese, Double Day, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424195 |
| Summary: | A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women-one American and one French-on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood. <br> <br> Lisa Alther and Fran oise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood.<br> <br> About Women is their extended conversation in which they talk about everything important to them- their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, and their views on love, style, self-invention, feminism,and child rearing. They also discuss the creative impulse and the importance of art as they ponder what it means to be a woman. |
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| Physical Description: | 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780385539869 038553986X 9780385539876 |
