{"product_id":"after-sappho-selby-wynn-schwartz","title":"After Sappho - Selby Wynn Schwartz","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRead an extract \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.galleybeggar.co.uk\/extract-after-sappho\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-sqsp-block=\"text\" id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1636373753287_78440\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIT’S 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted… But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e… In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTold in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, \u003cem\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/em\u003e is Selby Wynn Schwartz’s joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eSarah Bernhard – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf… these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in \u003cem\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/em\u003e, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – and also offers hope for our present, and our futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003eGalley Beggar Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e9781913111397\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eSelby Wynn Schwartz\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57673953706366,"sku":"after sappho","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/files\/9781913111397.jpg?v=1783781267","url":"https:\/\/diavazo.co.uk\/products\/after-sappho-selby-wynn-schwartz","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}