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Marilyn French (1929-2009) was regarded as one of the greatest living feminist writers. Her controversial and provocative first novel, The Women's Room published in 1977, sold twenty million copies worldwide and quickly became a classic of the women's movement. She was also mentioned in the 1982 ABBA song, The Day Before You Came. Additionally, Marilyn French was a literary critic. French was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1992. This experience was the basis for her book A Season in Hell: A Memoir (1998). French died from heart failure at age seventy-nine from Manhattan, New York City.A vigorous book
Mary Margaret McCabe, TLS
The strangest thing about A SEASON IN HELL is that, even though it is a meticulous catalogue of her descent into this other, diminished, way of life ... it ends up being immensely cheering
Maureen Freely, GUARDIAN
The struggle to assert control over chaos, and the painful realisation that your former life can never be resumed, is a powerful theme of the book
Julie Wheelwright, INDEPENDENT
An awesome testament to the bravery of a woman who manages to defy a supposedly unbeatable disease.
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