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Pure Flame - On Mothers and Daughters (Hardcover) Loot Price: R382
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Pure Flame - On Mothers and Daughters (Hardcover): Michelle Orange

Pure Flame - On Mothers and Daughters (Hardcover)

Michelle Orange

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'Rich and moving' New York Times 'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. A revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughter During one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of someone named Janis Jerome. So begins Michelle Orange's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of maternal legacy - in her own family and across a century of seismic change. Jerome, she learns, is one of her mother's many alter egos: the name used in a case study, eventually sold to the Harvard Business Review, about her midlife choice to leave her husband and children to pursue career opportunities in a bigger city. A flashpoint in the lives of both mother and daughter, the decision forms the heart of a broader exploration of the impact of feminism on what Adrienne Rich called 'the great unwritten story': that of the mother-daughter bond. Through a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Pure Flame pursues a chain of personal, intellectual, and collective inheritance, tracing the forces that helped transform the world and what a woman might expect from it.

General

Imprint: Harvill Secker
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2021
Authors: Michelle Orange
Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-911215-97-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-911215-97-3
Barcode: 9781911215974

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