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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
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Author:
Sarah Watling
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
May 9, 2023
An account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live--and to create--with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War.
What The Reviewers Say
Fascinating and comprehensive.
Watling’s narrative, inserting vivid glimpses of the conflict to situate her shuffling of a deck of characters who themselves embodied complex and evolving ideas, is expertly balanced.
Watling recounts the progress of the brutal war and the women’s growing conviction that inaction was not an option. Unfortunately, her decision to refer to these women—and less consistently to the men they were involved with—by their first names gives her serious, thoughtful narrative a gossipy tone..
