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In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays by Katie Roiphe
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days?...We are bequeathed on earth one very short life, and it might be good, one of these days, to make sure that we are living it.' In this powerfu ...Show more
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death Katie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational thinking tested during her third ...Show more
Uncommon Arrangements - Seven Marriages in Literary London 1910-1939 by Katie Roiphe
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on the memoirs, letters and diaries of a group of British intellectuals writing between 1910 and the Second World War, UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS paints a witty and insightful portrait of seven 'marriages a la mode', each triumphantly casting off Victorian inhibitions and pursuing bohemian ideals of ...Show more
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits by Katie Roiphe
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Katie Roiphe's stimulating work has made her one of the most talked about cultural critics of her generation. Now this bracing young writer delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of th ...Show more
Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death. Roiphe draws on her own extraordinary research and acce ...Show more
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