'This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and
a mind. It reminds us that she was never primarily a political
activist, but a writer and, to herself, a scholar ...Since she died
last year, a victim of her enormous size, I have come to think that
Andrea Dworkin was more important than I thought at the time.' -
Linda Grant, "The Jewish Quarterly". '"Heartbreak" confirms that
every bolshy, out-spoken freedom fighter who is the anti-type of
standard Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred
of unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.' - "The
Crack Magazine". '...explosive ...uncompromising courage ...you
could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of
inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its
incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its
eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisoners
truth-telling.' - "Times Literary Supplement". '"Heartbreak" is not
the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her
personality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked
sense of humour. If Dworkin had not come into prominence, first as
a victim of rape and later as a campaigner against it, she might
even be taking her place alongside Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood'.
- "The Times". 'pleasingly bathetic - her persecutors are finally
reduced to their proper size.' - Charlotte Raven, "New Statesman".
Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing,
Andrea Dworkin carved out a unique position as one of the women's
movement's most influential figures, from the early days of
consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. She wrote
thirteen books, ranging across feminist theory, fiction and poetry.
Andrea Dworkin died in April 2005.
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