pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: SPINSTER
MAKING A LIFE OF ONES OWN
By: Kate Bolick
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source it.

ISBN 10: 1472151186
ISBN 13: 9781472151186
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 9 July, 2015
Pages: 336
Description: A bold, original, moving book that will inspire fanatical devotion and ignite debate.
Synopsis: 'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.' So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experience as a starting point, Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she - along with millions of women, whose ranks keep growing - remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity and flair for drama has emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms essayist: journalist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By narrating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down and having it all are timeless - the crucible upon which women have tried for centuries to forge a good life.Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is a new kind of unreservedly inquisitive work of memoir and broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities that exist within ourselves to live authentically, unbounded - and to be savoured. 'I wish I could give this wise and subtle book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart ...Bold and intelligent' Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch 'A triumph' Malcolm Gladwell 'Women of the world listen here: drop whatever you're doing and read Kate Bolick's marvelous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st century' Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year 'Moving, insightful and important' Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
Illustrations: Integrated b/w photos in text
Publication: UK
Imprint: Corsair
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

CUSTOMERS WHO PURCHASED THIS ITEM ALSO BOUGHT
The Butterfly Lion ()
By: Michael Morpurgo, Christian Birmingham (Illus)
more details
Cirque Du Freak (Paperback)
By: Darren Shan
more details
The Time of the Ghost (Paperback)
By: Diana Wynne Jones
more details
TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
All About Love (Paperback)
By: Bell Hooks
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Why Men Love Bitches (Paperback)
By: Sherry Argov
Adams Media Corporation
Our Price : £8.75
more details
Living with the Dominator (Paperback)
By: Pat Craven, Jacky Fleming (Illus)
Freedom Publishing
Our Price : £9.07
more details
The Art Of Seduction (Paperback)
By: Robert Greene
Profile Books Ltd
Our Price : £13.86
more details
Hold Me Tight (Paperback)
By: Dr. Sue Johnson
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £10.21
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 FAMILY, HOME AND PRACTICAL INTERESTS
 family & health
 marriage, family & other relationships


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket