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Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the personal side of one of the women's movement's most influential figures.
Andrea Dworkin was a controversial and influential feminist writer and tireless campaigner against pornography and violence towards women. She died in April 2005. Author of 13 books, ranging across feminist theory, fiction and poetry, including Pornography, Intercourse and Scapegoat.
'Andrea Dworkin's contentious reputation is a perfect example of
media manipulation. This collection of memoirs, published to
commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confirms that every
bolshy, out-spoken freedom-fighter who is the anti-type of standard
Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of
unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.' The Crack, 1
July 2006
'Dworkin appears before us, ravaged and thundering like one of
Shakespeare's Plantagenet queens, to deliver her fearsome
maledictions...one of the few remaining specimens of pure
counterculture Romanticism' New York Times Book Review
*Blurb from reviewer*
'...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and
realization.'
*Blurb from reviewer*
'...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to
challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist
age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should
inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.'
*Blurb from reviewer*
'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book. In it, her great,
passionate voice lives on.'
*Daily Telegraph, The*
'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the
gender studies section of any bookshop. Rather, it will be
placed with all the other memoirs of victimised women.
Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is
dry and humorous. Her persomality is warm and likeable and,
shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour.'
*Times*
'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis
of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class,
its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance,
its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners
truth-telling.'
*Times Literary Supplement*
'Andrea Dworkin's contentious reputation is a perfect example of
media manipulation. This collection of memoirs, published to
commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confirms that every
bolshy, out-spoken freedom-fighter who is the anti-type of standard
Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of
unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.' The Crack, 1
July 2006
'Dworkin appears before us, ravaged and thundering like one of
Shakespeare's Plantagenet queens, to deliver her fearsome
maledictions...one of the few remaining specimens of pure
counterculture Romanticism' New York Times Book Review * Blurb from
reviewer *
'...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and
realization.' * Blurb from reviewer *
'...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to
challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist
age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should
inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.' *
Blurb from reviewer *
'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book. In it, her great,
passionate voice lives on.' -- Michael Moorcock * Daily Telegraph,
The *
'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the
gender studies section of any bookshop. Rather, it will be placed
with all the other memoirs of victimised women. Heartbreak is not
the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her
persomality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked
sense of humour.' -- Tamara Kaminsky * Times *
'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis
of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class,
its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance,
its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners
truth-telling.' -- Christine Bold * Times Literary Supplement *
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