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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
"The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: "I want to make life fuller and fuller."
Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Agiliteve
- 12-17-23
Amazing book marred by poor narration
Only one comment on this amazing book - they should have picked a narrator with a passing familiarity with French and Italian since the names of people and places in those languages appear with great frequency. I cringed as the narrator struggled to pronounce even the most well known.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución1 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Anne Choe
- 07-10-24
Someone get Ms. Acitelli a diction coach!
I couldn't get through the narration. I suspect this book is really lovely when read to yourself or read by someone with at least passable Italian, French and Greek. It's so distracting and it almost seems intentional. Reading the other reviews, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- M. Masland
- 01-03-24
Cringy narration
the narration is really bizarre. I’m going to just buy the book and read it. Absolute butchering of French, Italian, Greek names in a strange sing songy monotone. Comes off as a camp parody of an American trying to sound sophisticated. Maybe this was the intent? But it feels like a mockery of the women in the story trying to find their true selves. Was this the intent of the book? First time I’ve been so distracted by the narrator that I couldn’t focus on the story.
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