{"product_id":"passionate-minds-claudia-roth-pierpont-9780679751137","title":"Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World","description":"With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pierpont 's] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus.\" ?\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time.\" ?Lorrie Moore, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Roth Pierpont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679751130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679751137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/18\/2001 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/09\/2001 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 1085","brand":"Claudia Roth Pierpont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946921033983,"sku":"9780679751137","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b1019f99-6d33-4a1d-8ad8-0ccb668d2e09.jpg?v=1681515756","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/passionate-minds-claudia-roth-pierpont-9780679751137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}