HER BRILLIANT CAREER: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties - Softcover

Cooke, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062333879 ISBN 13: 9780062333872

Verlag: Perennial, 2015

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"Cooke's droll, pressing style is what binds the stories together; no sooner do we embark than we know we will not be disappointed, though every portrait is different, every life depicted complex and, at times, startling."--Barbara Bamberger Scott, Bookreporter.com

"Cooke is one of the outstanding British journalists of her generation."--Sebastian Faulks

"In a series of engaging, gossipy essays, filled with sharp observations, she examines the lives of 10 very different women.... It's clever and amusing, a series of sketches that provide a revealing glimpse into the culture of 1950s Britain."--Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal

"Shines a new light in an elegantly original way into the 1950s.... A very enjoyable and distinctive book."--Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life

"I always thought of British women of the sixties as cultural pioneers, but I had no idea how fascinating and accomplished--how daring and tough--were the women of the decade before. Thank you, Rachel Cooke, for stylishly adding a chapter to this provincial American's personal women's studies curriculum."--Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-and the Journey of a Generation

"The stories are insightful and crafted with care.... A satisfying read for anyone interested in narratives about women's lives in the early to mid-20th century."--Library Journal

"Rachel Cooke's Her Brilliant Career is that rare beast: a work of history as utterly enjoyable as it is important. Cooke writes with a novelist's authority, humor, and eye for detail and, in doing so, has crafted a history for the ages."--Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

"Cooke's book provides a sparkling group of portraits that, taken together, cast the '50s in a new and modern light."--Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness

"Engrossing, entertaining and, yes, deliciously gossipy. Just as Eminent Victorians forever changed our view of the Victorian era, Her Brilliant Career demolishes the conventional wisdom of the fifties Woman. I, for one, will never think of this decade in the same way."--Elsa Walsh, author of Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women

"Mad men, move over! Her Brilliant Career is Rachel Cooke's intelligent, informative and gossipy proof that women in the 1950s were doing a lot more than taking dictation, fixing the perfect dry martini, and going nuts in the suburbs."--Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel

Reseña del editor:

An exuberant group biography—"a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity" (The Guardian)—that follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering lives paved the way for feminism and laid the foundation of modern women's success.

In Her Brilliant Career, Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s—pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These plucky and ambitious individuals—among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, a race car driver—left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman.

Daring and independent, these remarkable unsung heroines—whose obscurity makes their accomplishments all the more astonishing and relevant —loved passionately, challenged men's control, made their own mistakes, and took life on their own terms, breaking new ground and offering inspiration. Their individual portraits gradually form a landscape of 1950s culture, and women's unique—and rapidly evolving—role.

Before there could be a Danica Patrick, there had to be a Sheila van Damm; before there was Barbara Walters, there was Nancy Spain; before there was Kathryn Bigelow, came Muriel Box. The pioneers ofHer Brilliant Career forever changed the fabric of culture, society, and the work force.

This is the Fifties, retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern.

Her Brilliant Career is illustrated with more than 80 black-and-white photographs.

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• Verlag: Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062333879
• ISBN 13: 9780062333872
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370