{"product_id":"9781529924336-becoming-george","title":"Becoming George","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Invention of George Sand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSand seems as alive as if she had just walked out of the room.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003equietly witty. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efascinating' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThought-provoking\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003ewritten with energy, passion and commitment to its fascinating subject' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress. So take me for a man or a woman as you wish.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the age of thirty, the novelist who had been born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, \u003cb\u003eher daring literary experiments were out-selling even Victor Hugo. But the legend of Sand herself scandalised Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e Not only prodigiously talented but cigar-smoking, cross-dressing and promiscuous, she seemed to break all the rules society set for women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can we learn from the way she lived? \u003cb\u003eWas her iconoclasm simply an act of courage, a declaration of absolute autonomy?\u003c\/b\u003e Or did her emotional and creative relationships with many of the leading figures of her day – \u003cb\u003efrom Fryderyk Chopin to Gustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e, and Alfred de Musset to Eugène Delacroix – form part of her dialogue with the world around her: a dialogue that is intrinsic to writing itself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBecoming George\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson rehabilitates Sand as an intellectual and artistic giant\u003c\/b\u003e, the beating heart of French literature in the nineteenth century. Too often underestimated in the century and a half since her death, she speaks to us today – about ecology, politics, society, gender – with brilliant prescience; a figure ahead of her time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Fiona Sampson:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fiona Sampson beautifully describes the “self-invention” of George Sand\u003c\/b\u003e, the Romantic period’s most famous woman writer, and in the process paints \u003cb\u003ea vivid portrait of a world in the throes of political and artistic revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e' Maurice Samuels, Professor of French, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eFiona Sampson is a sleuth of a biographer . rarely has my jaw dropped on so many occasions\u003c\/b\u003e while reading a biography.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e on\u003ci\u003e In Search of Mary Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eBrilliant, heart-stopping . reads like a thriller, a memoir and a provocative piece of literary fiction\u003c\/b\u003e all at the same time . \u003cb\u003emagical and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e.’ Charlotte Gordon, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eTwo Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eIf we get another literary biography [this year] as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky\u003c\/b\u003e.’ John Carey, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Mary Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55698966118774,"sku":"9781529924336","price":21.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39157846_b7018b13-480b-499d-a75d-6c08d8ee101e.jpg?v=1766440317","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529924336-becoming-george","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}