{"product_id":"becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand-1","title":"Becoming George: The Invention Of George Sand","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSand seems as alive as if she had just walked out of the room . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003equietly witty . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efascinating' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThought-provoking . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ewritten with energy, passion and commitment to its fascinating subject' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress . . . So take me for a man or a woman as you wish.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from the way George Sand lived? Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, by the time she was thirty she was internationally renowned, her novels out-selling Victor Hugo in the English language. Cigar-smoking, cross-dressing and promiscuous - Sand scandalised Paris, seeming to break every rule set for women in polite society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas her iconoclasm simply an act of courage, a declaration of absolute autonomy, or did her sexual and emotional relationships with the leading figures of her day - from Frederic Chopin to Gustave Flaubert - form part of her dialogue with the world, a dialogue intrinsic to writing itself?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Becoming George, award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson rehabilitates Sand as an intellectual and artistic giant\u003c\/b\u003e, the beating heart of French literature in the nineteenth century. Too often underestimated in the century and a half since her death, she speaks to us today - about ecology, politics, society, gender - with brilliant prescience; a figure ahead of her time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engaging . . . elegant . . . empathetic\u003c\/b\u003e'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSampson's vivid and innovative biography will hopefully send a new generation of readers to Sand's work\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA highly readable, subtly inventive book that argues for Sand's importance not just as a writer but as a cultural figure\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiona Sampson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68026641416370,"sku":"9781804993774","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781804993774.jpg?v=1794618111","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}