How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much Contributor(s): Ellis, Samantha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101872098 ISBN-13: 9781101872093 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Women - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Humor |
Dewey: 809.392 |
LCCN: 2014021162 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: While debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladies--the characters and the writers--whom she has loved since childhood. From early obsessions with the March sisters to her later idolization of Sylvia Plath, Ellis evaluates how her heroines stack up today. And, just as she excavates the stories of her favorite characters, Ellis also shares a frank, often humorous account of her own life growing up in a tight-knit Iraqi Jewish community in London. Here a life-long reader explores how heroines shape all our lives. |