BOOK

March sisters : on life, death, and Little women

Bolick, Kate, author, Zhang, Jenny, author, Machado, Carmen Maria author, Smiley, Jane, author

2019

Overview

\"On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate Bolick finds parallels in oldest sister Meg's brush with glamour at the Moffats' ball and her own complicated relationship with clothes. Jenny Zhang confesses to liking Jo least among the sisters when she first read the novel as a girl, uncomfortable in finding so much of herself in a character she feared was too unfeminine. Carmen Maria Machado writes about the real-life tragedy of Lizzie Alcott, the inspiration for third sister Beth, and the horror story that can result from not being the author of your own life's narrative. And Jane Smiley rehabilitates the reputation of youngest sister Amy, whom she sees as a modern feminist role model for those of us who are, well, not like the fiery Jo. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.\"--Publisher's description.

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Subject: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. / Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Characters. / Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Influence. / Sisters in literature. / Women in literature.
• ISBN: 9781598536287, 1598536281

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS1017.L53 B65 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE