{"product_id":"after-sappho","title":"After Sappho","description":"\u003cp\u003eIT’S 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted… But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e… In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartz’s joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Bernhard – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf… these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – and also offers hope for our present, and our futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: 2022 in UK\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Galley Beggar Press \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 288\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9781913111243\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 1913111245\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Selby Wynn Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43635223429386,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781035001743_38292315-c36f-4717-8a89-97f2fceb8d64.jpg?v=1658405419","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/after-sappho","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}