{"product_id":"human-relations-and-other-difficulties-mary-kay-wilmers-9781250750105","title":"Human Relations and Other Difficulties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incisive collection of essays by the editor of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, whom Hilary Mantel has called \"a presiding genius\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992. Her editorial life began long before that: she started at Faber and Faber in the time of T. S. Eliot, then worked at the \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e, and then at the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. As John Lanchester says in his introduction, she has been extracting literary works from reluctant writers for more than fifty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs well as an editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers is, and has been throughout her career, a writer. The deeply considered pieces in \u003ci\u003eHuman Relations and Other Difficulties\u003c\/i\u003e, whether on Jean Rhys, Alice James, a nineteenth-century edition of the Pears' Cyclopaedia, novel reviewing, Joan Didion, mistresses, seduction, or her own experience of parenthood, are sparkling, funny, and absorbing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnderlying all these essays is a concern with the relation between the genders: the effect men have on women, and the ways in which men limit and frame women's lives. Wilmers holds these patterns up to cool scrutiny, and gives a crisp and sometimes cutting insight into the hard work of being a woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary-Kay Wilmers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250750105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250750105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.62d","brand":"Mary-Kay Wilmers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988917846271,"sku":"9781250750105","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c6d1265-8724-4e2c-a9bd-7da27d526d85.jpg?v=1683297036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-relations-and-other-difficulties-mary-kay-wilmers-9781250750105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}