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Brilliant Careers
Ali Smith
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Description for Brilliant Careers
Paperback. * A definitive collection of 101 short pieces from 1900 to 2000 this is an invaluable volume of women's writing this century Editor(s): Smith, Ali; Boddy, Kasia; Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 528 pages, Integrated: 10, Int. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 418.
A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. Add to this another ninety-two brilliant writers a reader can relish the thought of careering between - and all collected together in the one anthology. An international celebration of extracts that chart our time: stories of poverty and wealth, work and play, tales of changing environments - both urban and rural, in peace and wartime. A book of Virago authors with every year of the twentieth ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860498428
SKU
V9781860498428
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99-50
About Ali Smith
KASIA BODDY is a literary critic and lecturer. ALI SMITH is a novelist and short-story writer. SARAH WOOD is a writer and filmmaker.
Reviews for Brilliant Careers
Readable and provocative
OBSERVER
The scope and variety on display here should satisfy any reader interested in great literature
SCOTSMAN
An immaculately and exhaustively researched overview of women's writing
FINANCIAL TIMES
"A writer for every year of the 20th Century': delving into its impressive list of Modern Classics, in Brilliant Careers the feminist publishing ... Read more
OBSERVER
The scope and variety on display here should satisfy any reader interested in great literature
SCOTSMAN
An immaculately and exhaustively researched overview of women's writing
FINANCIAL TIMES
"A writer for every year of the 20th Century': delving into its impressive list of Modern Classics, in Brilliant Careers the feminist publishing ... Read more