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After Sappho

Paperback • 2022 • English

After Sappho

By Selby Wynn Schwartz

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About the book

“The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.”...Show more

Fiction and Related items
Fiction: general and literary
Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction

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ISBN

9781913111243

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

After Sappho

Format

Paperback

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