My Life as a Villainess - Essays

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising. Meet the Woman Behind the Books... In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, her experiences as a novelist--Lippman finds universal touchstones in an unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction. Essays include: Men Explain The Wire to Me Game of Crones My Life as a Villainess My Father's Bar The 31 st Stocking These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime novelists of her generation.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Lippman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780063000131
• ISBN: 978-0-06-300013-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Life Stages / School Age, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Life Stages / Teenagers, HUMOR: Topic / Relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Education, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Life Stages / Later Years, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs