Women's Room

Informationen zum Autor Marilyn French (1929-2009) was regarded as one of the greatest living feminist writers. Her controversial and provocative first novel, The Women's Room published in 1977, sold twenty million copies worldwide and quickly became a classic of the women's movement. She was also mentioned in the 1982 ABBA song, T he Day Before You Came. Additionally, Marilyn French was a literary critic. French was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1992. This experience was the basis for her book A Season in Hell: A Memoir (1998). French died from heart failure at age seventy-nine from Manhattan, New York City. Klappentext The classic bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men. Vorwort The classic bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men. Zusammenfassung The classic bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn French
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9781860492822
• ISBN: 978-1-86049-282-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary