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Landscape for a Good Woman

Landscape for a Good Woman - Virago Classic Non-Fiction

Paperback (10 Apr 1986)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it.'

Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism.

'Provocative and quite dazzling in its ambitions. . . Beautifully written, intellectually compelling' Judith Walkowitz

About the Publisher

Virago

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780860685593
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Virago
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.420942
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Weight: 128g
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Spine width: 12mm