{"product_id":"about-women-lisa-alther-9780385539869","title":"About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women--one American and one French--on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa Alther and Fran oise 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout Women \u003c\/i\u003eis their extended conversation in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, and their views on love, style, self-invention, feminism, and child rearing. They also discuss the creative impulse and the importance of art as they ponder what it means to be a woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Alther, Francoise Gilot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 038553986X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385539869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nan A. Talese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2015 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/2015 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2015","brand":"Lisa Alther","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056875925759,"sku":"9780385539869","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5b1347c-3a50-4773-8339-5922eb878c51.jpg?v=1685043753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/about-women-lisa-alther-9780385539869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}