The Virago Book of Friendship
Rachel Cooke
- 05 september 2024
- 9781405563833
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The VIRAGO BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP includes ~
Dolly Alderton Jami Attenberg Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Elizabeth Bishop Enid Blyton Charlotte Bronte Emma Cline Colette Shirley Conran E M Delafield George Eliot Nora Ephron Bernardine Evaristo Elena Ferrante Helen Fielding Helen Garner Elizabeth Gaskell Stella Gibbons Shirley Hazzard Zoe Heller Sheila Heti Frances Hodgson Burnett Jackie Kay Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Hilary Mantel Mary McCarthy Nancy Mitford Lorrie Moore L M Montgomery Toni Morrison Ottessa Moshfegh Barbara Pym Marilynne Robinson Christina Rossetti Dorothy L Sayers Carol Shields Curtis Sittenfeld Stevie Smith Zadie Smith Muriel Spark Elizabeth Taylor Rose Tremain Sarah Waters Edith Wharton Antonia White Meg Wolitzer Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf
A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends
'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing . . . a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship' TABLET
Friendship, a timeless subject, has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet - the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting - as well as with a growing awareness that loneliness is increasing in our society. Friendship has become a matter of urgent inquiry to therapists, scientists and sociologists. We understand its importance more and more, not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health. But it's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity and its miraculous ease; its tendency to wax and wane; its ability to inspire both delight and despair.
This is the territory of novels and poems, diaries and letters, comics and graphic novels - and it is where the innovative and wide ranging Virago Book of Friendship steps in, bringing together work by more than 100 writers. From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters and Meg Wolitzer and, it celebrates and investigates friendship between women from first encounters to final goodbyes, from falling out to making up again.