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Mary Renault: A Biography (Paperback or Softback)
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- ISBN
- 0156000601
- EAN
- 9780156000604
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Mary Renault : a Biography
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Women, Lgbt, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa, where she and her companion, Julie Mullard, remained. "A superb biography of an exceptional novelist" (New Yorker). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Index; photographs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156000601
ISBN-13
9780156000604
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1398048
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mary Renault : a Biography
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Lgbt, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6035.E55z87 1994
Reviews
This first nonacademic biography of Renault was developed by Sweetman (Van Gogh, 1990) from a rare interview granted him in 1981, two years before his subject's death. In that interview, Renault conveyed both her discomfort with being an ''apostle of the sexual revolution'' and her pride in the research behind her award- winning historical novels. Daughter of a provincial doctor, Renault attended St. Hugh's, an Oxford college for women. To escape an idle future as a maiden daughter living in her mother's sewing room, she trained to be a nurse. Along with the discipline and deprivation, she discovered her sexual nature and Julie Mullard, who was to become her life- long companion and the subject of her first novel, the subtly sexual The Purposes of Love (1939)--the first of Renault's series of contemporary novels that culminated in The Charioteer (1953), an open and sympathetic depiction of homosexual love. By the time it was published, Renault--in order to escape high taxes, the cold, and social rejection--had moved to South Africa, where she began publishing the historical novels for which she's best remembered. Carefully researched, richly imagined, her dignified representations of homosexuality among the heros and gods of ancient Greece and Rome won her a following of gay liberationists- -whose position she rejected as ''sexual tribalism.'' As honorary president of the Cape Town chapter of PEN, Renault was attacked by Nadine Gordimer for not including blacks in the chapter--which is about as controversial as Renault ever became: When she died at age 78, many still believed that her novels had been written by a man. Somewhere between this wary approach to an exceptional mind and the academic jargon that Renault seems to attract, there's still much to be explained. Renault continues to wear her own Mask of Apollo., This outstanding biography of the celebrated historical novelist was a Lambda Literary Award nominee. Photos.
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
94-010347
Dewey Decimal
823/.912 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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