Lisa Appignanesi, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (535p) ISBN 978-0-393-06663-0
Award-winning British novelist Appignanesi (The Memory Man) has written a fascinating if somewhat diffuse study of how, over the past two centuries, women's ability to live creative lives has been controlled by culture, and how their unsuccessful...
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Lisa Appignanesi, Author Dutton Books $20 (576p) ISBN 978-0-525-93403-5
Appignanesi's first foray into fiction (her nonfiction books on the arts have been published in Europe) is an entertaining multigenerational saga. The time span ('30s-'80s), venues (Poland, Paris, Rome, New York) and cast of characters (pre- and...
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Lisa Appignanesi, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-525-93884-2
What Appignanesi (Memory and Desire) seems to have intended as a multigenerational erotic thriller is instead a jumble of story lines that span seven decades and attest to an overindulged imagination. London journalist Helena Latimer receives a...
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Lisa Appignanesi. Arcadia (Dufour, dist.), $24.95 (506p) ISBN 978-1-908129-99-4
At the outset of this atmospheric, if overly long and sometimes ponderous mystery set in 1899 from British author Appignanesi (Sanctuary), widowed professor of law James Norton leaves his Boston home for Paris, intending to untangle his journalist...
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Lisa Appignanesi. Arcadia (Dufour, dist.), $21 (352p) ISBN 978-1-909807-58-7
Fans of elegantly written and intricately plotted historicals will relish this middle volume in British author Appignanesi’s Belle Époque trilogy (after 2014’s Paris Requiem). Marguerite de Landois, who lives in Paris, welcomes a summons home to the
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Lisa Appignanesi. Pegasus, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60598-814-6
Crimes of passion have a long and fascinating history, and Appignanesi (Mad, Bad, Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to Present) is particularly adept at the colorful, and cerebral, examination of three such crimes committed...
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