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Art and Madness

A Memoir of Lust Without Reason

Art and Madness( )
Author: Roiphe, Anne
ISBN:978-0-307-47396-7
Publication Date:Mar 2012
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Anchor
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

Coming of age on Park Avenue in the 1950s, Anne Roiphe had an adolescence entrenched in privilege, petticoats, and social rules. Young women at the time were expected to give up personal freedom for devotion to home and children. Instead, Roiphe chose Beckett, Proust, Sartre, and Mann as her heroes, and became one of the girls draped across the sofa at parties with George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and William Styron, sometimes with her young child in tow. For a time she was satisfied...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Literary Criticism / American / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.12 x 7.96 x 0.69 Inches
Book Weight:0.5 Pounds



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