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Author:
Katie Roiphe
Publisher:
Free Press
Date:
March 3, 2020
The author of The Morning After shares a blend of memoir, feminist investigation, and exploration in famous female writers' lives in a discussion of how strong women experience their power.
What The Reviewers Say
Anyone familiar with Ms. Roiphe’s work will be unsurprised by her desire to wrest a story of strength from an experience that others might describe with words like 'trauma' or 'victim'.
Despite her reputation for controversy, Roiphe has never been that formidable a polemicist; her perspective is too blinkered, her blind spots too obvious. At the level of the sentence, though, she’s a skillful writer. Even in this book, without the ballast of a sustained argument, there’s a deliberation in her pacing that keeps everything moving.
In her searching, pensive new book, The Power Notebooks, Roiphe turns her theorizing on herself.
... a series of brief-but-potent meditations on women.
