{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-in-manhattan-9781909572102","title":"Virginia Woolf in Manhattan","description":"\"I have been dragged through time, summoned like a book requisitioned from a distant library,\" says Virginia Woolf, \"resurrected\" by modern-day author, Angela Lamb, working on Woolf manuscripts in the New York Public Library's Berg collection. \u003cbr\u003e Angela dumps her irrepressible daughter at boarding-school to pursue her writing, so, when a bedraggled Virginia materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela rushes to her rescue, chaperoning her wayward heroine.\u003cbr\u003e Virginia drinks in the Algonquin, finds friends' paintings in the Met, and scams bookstores by selling pristine first editions of her novels, inscribed. Visits to independent booksellers make up for her disappointment in finding iconic bookstores closed.\u003cbr\u003e Virginia flies with Angela to a conference in Istanbul, makes friends, finds new lovers, and steals the show at international meeting on - Virginia Woolf. \u003cbr\u003e The novel asks what Virginia would make of contemporary literature, the book trade, love, sex and digital addictions? Are we free-er than in Woolf's day? By showing Woolf's joy in seizing life, Gee challenges the clich  that great female artists are self-destructive, and engagingly shows Woolf's ideas on equality, feminism and bisexuality are as vibrant and important as ever.\u003cbr\u003e A witty, profound novel about the miraculous possibilities of second chances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fentum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909572102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maggie Gee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670257561756,"sku":"9781909572102","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_80269ae8-4b3f-48a7-896a-50c37b28a3f4.jpg?v=1603922200","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/virginia-woolf-in-manhattan-9781909572102","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}