After Sappho
Read by
Daniela Acitelli
Release:
02/28/2023
Release:
02/28/2023
Release:
02/28/2023
Runtime:
7h 31m
Runtime:
7h 31m
Runtime:
7h 31m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Schwartz’s novel…forms and re-forms itself through fragments—of desire, longing, and belonging.”
New York Times Book Review
A New Statesman Best Book of 2022
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
"The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: "I want to make life fuller and fuller." Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.
An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
"The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: "I want to make life fuller and fuller." Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.
Release:
2023-02-28
2023-02-28
2023-02-28
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
7h 31m
7h 31m
7h 31m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.53 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781696610773
9798212517294
9798212517287
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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