9780349017143: Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 034901714X ISBN 13: 9780349017143
Verlag: Virago, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS.

Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer, living in Canada with her family. Her novels are Room, The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Slammerkin, Hood and Stir-fry; short-story collections Astray, Three and a Half Deaths (UK ebook), Touchy Subjects, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, and Kissing the Witch; and literary history including Inseparable, We Are Michael Field, and Passions Between Women as well as two anthologies that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Frog Music, her new novel, comes out in Spring 2014.

Kirsty Logan's books include Now She is Witch, Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. She lives in Glasgow with her wife, baby and rescue dog.

Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has written two previous novels for adults, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. She has also written the best-selling supernatural series for teenagers, All Our Hidden Gifts. She was born in Ireland and currently lives in London.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL.

For centuries past, and all across the world

HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH.

there are words that have defined and decried us.

HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE.

Words that raise our hackles


VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT.


fire up our blood;

FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.

words that tell a story.




In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
034901714X
ISBN 13 
9780349017143
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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