DIFFICULT WOMEN

David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and , in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist hi mself. The book begins with David Plantes portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, afte r years o...[Llegir més]