About women : conversations between a writer and a painter / Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot.
| Author/creator |
Alther, Lisa author. |
| Other author/creator | Gilot, Françoise, 1921-2023 author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015] |
| Description | 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Preface -- 1. The war room -- 2. The Virginia Club -- 3. La guerre en dentelle -- 4. Five generations of women -- 5. The little black dress -- 6. Ceremonies in white -- 7. England's green and pleasant land -- 8. The middle path. |
| Abstract | "Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts, while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation, in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, fashion, self-invention, style, feminism, even child rearing. They also talk about the creative impulse and the importance of art. This is a charming and endearing dialogue between two intelligent and often funny women as they ponder what it is to be a woman"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2015003400 |
| ISBN | 9780385539869 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 038553986X (cloth) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3551 .L78 Z46 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |