{"product_id":"the-baby-on-the-fire-julie-phillips-9780393088595","title":"The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in \"a room of one's own,\" but in a domestic space? In \u003cem\u003eThe Baby on the Fire Escape\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith fierce empathy, Phillips evokes the intimate and varied struggles of brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Ursula K. Le Guin found productive stability in family life, and Audre Lorde's queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms. Susan Sontag became a mother at nineteen, Angela Carter at forty-three. These mothers had one child, or five, or seven. They worked in a studio, in the kitchen, in the car, on the bed, at a desk, with a baby carrier beside them. They faced judgement for pursuing their creative work--Doris Lessing was said to have abandoned her children, and Alice Neel's in-laws falsely claimed that she once, to finish a painting, left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she threads together vivid portraits of these pathbreaking women, Phillips argues that creative motherhood is a question of keeping the baby on that apocryphal fire escape: work and care held in a constantly renegotiated, provisional, productive tension. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, \u003cem\u003eThe Baby on the Fire Escape\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393088596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393088595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 2","brand":"Julie Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051499286783,"sku":"9780393088595","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_91a070e7-8b4c-4d30-b7d1-293b91513d79.jpg?v=1685013465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-baby-on-the-fire-julie-phillips-9780393088595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}