{"product_id":"colette-my-literary-mother-hardcover","title":"Colette: My Literary Mother - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMich?le Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love. Delving into four keys texts, Roberts explores Colette's willingness to break open taboos about older woman and desire, as well as hidden and forbidden aspects of human longings and pleasures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough these re-readings, Roberts discovers that Colette's work is even more entrancing, more disturbing, and more original than she first thought.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichèle Roberts, \u003cem\u003eNovelist, poet, and Professor Emeritus, University of East Anglia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichèle Roberts has published fifteen novels and her most recent is \u003cem\u003eCut Out\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). Her novel \u003cem\u003eDaughters of the House\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published three collections of short stories and eight of poetry, as well as two memoirs and one collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eFood, Sex \u0026amp; God: on Inspiration and Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (1998). With the artist Caroline Isgar, she has published four artist's books. She has written two plays, both of which were performed, and one short film for Channel 4.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753368027424,"sku":"9780192858214","price":31.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b5ef1088a6c44a398bbe008d674dad8c.webp?v=1780018424","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/colette-my-literary-mother-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}