{"product_id":"after-sappho-9781324092315","title":"After Sappho","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho\u003c\/em\u003e,\" so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: \"I want to make life fuller and fuller.\" Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, \u003cem\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/em\u003e announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!\"--Lucy Ellmann, author of \u003cem\u003eDucks, Newburyport\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324092315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Booker Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Selby Wynn Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42531019882677,"sku":"9781324092315","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8b99d4a7-4253-4fd3-ac96-650cf4852804.jpg?v=1669735196","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/after-sappho-9781324092315","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}