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Kate Bolick is a contributing editor to the Atlantic. She was previously the executive editor of Domino magazine. She lives in New York.Bolick links her own experiences into the world of literature very well, whether it's Louisa May Alcott or Mary Oliver: 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'
The Bookseller
This is a memoir about what it's like to be a single woman. It's revealing and sometimes sad. There's a heartbreaking part about the death of her mother in middle age, and the loss of everything that might have come later. It's very literary - steeped in female writers
Evening Standard
Ms Bolick's is a personal story of the pleasures and challenges of being a woman at a time of changing rules and seemingly endless possibilities
Economist
'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.'
So begins Spinster, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means - what it could mean - for women to 'have it all'.
'I wish I could give this wise and subtle book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart . . . Bold and intelligent' Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch
'A triumph' Malcolm Gladwell
'Women of the world listen here: drop whatever you're doing and read Kate Bolick's marvelous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st century' Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
'Moving, insightful and important' Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
'Women of the world, listen here: Drop whatever you're doing and read Kate Bolick's marvellous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st century' Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
'Whom to marry, and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence'
So begins Spinster, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means - what it could mean - for women to 'have it all'.
'Unmarried, married or otherwise, read this book. It is a master class in self-worth and making your own adventures' The Pool
'Bolick's style is a treat . . . A likeable, eye-opening book about a subject that concerns growing numbers of single women' The Times
'A much-needed facelift for spinsterhood' The Lady
'I wish I could give this book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart and inspiration from Bolick's bold and intelligent self' Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch
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ISBN: 9781472152077
Category: non-fiction
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