The Virago Book of Friendship

A fond, fascinated look at female friendship using the writings - fictional, diaries, letters - of friends. Friendship has never been more talked about. Some of this has to do with the internet (the perils of WhatsApp groups, and of ghosting), and some, with the Covid-19 pandemic. Friendship is being written about, and researched, seriously, by therapists and scientists alike. But it''s hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity; its singular ease; the way it can wax and wane; its ability to cause uncommon pain. This is the territory of novels and letters, poems and plays - which is where The Virago Book of Friendship steps in: celebratory, but also explanatory and wide in scope including not only the thoughts of Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, but of Alison Bechdel, Nan Goldin and Vivian Gornick, Helen Garner and Sheila Heti. And school stories, of course, because that''s where it all begins...

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Cooke
• Assisted by: Rachel Cooke (Editor)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.12.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780349018430
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01843-0
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.8 x 3.6 cm
• Subjects: Internet, Virago, Technology, Relationships, Maya Angelou, Sally Rooney, Virginia Woolf, Journalist, Short Stories, Jane Austen, Nan Goldin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, Elena Ferrante, Fiction, Zadie Smith, Helen Garner, Psychology, female, Elizabeth Taylor, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Poems, Margaret Atwood, Nancy Mitford, School, childhood, Sheila Heti, Nora Ephron, Sarah Waters, growing up, Rose Tremain, Anthologies: general, Alison Bechdel, Letters, Dolly Alderton, Muriel Spark, Bernardine Evaristo, Connection, Adulthood, Novels, plays, Judy Blume, Diaries, Curtis Sittenfeld, Modern life, r f kuang, Rachel Cooke, Vivian Gornick, Her Brilliant Career