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The Virago Book of Friendship - Hardcover

Cooke, Rachel

 
9780349018430: The Virago Book of Friendship
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 034901843X ISBN 13: 9780349018430
Verlag: Virago, 2024

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A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends

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RACHEL COOKE was born in Sheffield 4 July 1969. A journalist for the Observer for twenty-five years, she reviewed books, interviewed celebrities, politicians and writers, championed graphic novels, and wrote a weekly TV column for the New Statesman. In 2006, Rachel Cooke was named Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards.

Her first book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties published by Virago in 2013, was followed by Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking & Eating, a collection of her pieces from her Observer column, published by Weidenfeld in 2023. The Virago Book of Friendship was published in hardback in 2024. All three of her books reflect the passion and the wit of a great and beguiling writer. Clever, wide-ranging and inspiring, her knowledge and sheer appetite for life was shared with millions of readers.

Rachel Cooke died in London on 14 November 2025 aged 56.

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The VIRAGO BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP includes ~
Dolly Alderton Jami Attenberg Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Elizabeth Bishop Enid Blyton Charlotte Bronte Emma Cline Colette Shirley Conran E M Delafield George Eliot Nora Ephron Bernardine Evaristo Elena Ferrante Helen Fielding Helen Garner Elizabeth Gaskell Stella Gibbons Shirley Hazzard Zoe Heller Sheila Heti Frances Hodgson Burnett Jackie Kay Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Hilary Mantel Mary McCarthy Nancy Mitford Lorrie Moore L M Montgomery Toni Morrison Ottessa Moshfegh Barbara Pym Marilynne Robinson Christina Rossetti Dorothy L Sayers Carol Shields Curtis Sittenfeld Stevie Smith Zadie Smith Muriel Spark Elizabeth Taylor Rose Tremain Sarah Waters Edith Wharton Antonia White Meg Wolitzer Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf

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A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends.

Friendship, a timeless subject, has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet - the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting - as well as with a growing awareness that loneliness is increasing in our society. Friendship has become a matter of urgent inquiry to therapists, scientists and sociologists. We understand its importance more and more, not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health. But it's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity and its miraculous ease; its tendency to wax and wane; its ability to inspire both delight and despair.

This is the territory of novels and poems, diaries and letters, comics and graphic novels - and it is where the innovative and wide ranging Virago Book of Friendship steps in, bringing together work by more than 100 writers. From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters and Meg Wolitzer and, it celebrates and investigates friendship between women from first encounters to final goodbyes, from falling out to making up again.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
034901843X
ISBN 13 
9780349018430
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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