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About This Book
Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a timely blend of memoir, feminist investigation, and exploration of famous female writers' lives, in a bold, essential discussion of how strong women experience their power. Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights into the lives and loves of famous writers such as Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful women have subjugated their own power time and time again, and she probes brilliantly at the tricky, uncomfortable question of why. In these informal musings and notes, Roiphe delves into treacherous, largely untalked about, contradictions of contemporary womanhood, going where few writers dare. The Power Notebooks is Roiphe's most vital, thought provoking, and emotionally intimate work yet.
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"Roiphe, who typically writes and picks fights with an unapologetic swagger."
"If the familiarity is exasperating rather than just a little dull, it's because Roiphe seems to hold herself aloof from the audience for those insights ..."
"Roiphe's larger goal here is to investigate the lived reality of her romantic dynamics, not to get on a soap box and opine."
"Throughout the book, the author probes the question of why women so often subjugate their power in their private lives, but she never quite finds a satisfying answer ..."
"Roiphe delves into the lives of women writers...praising Simone de Beauvoir as a 'brilliant elucidator,' which Roiphe is, too, to deeply clarifying and affirming effect."
"Roiphe's astute memoir reverberates with rich prose, crisp pacing, and self-compassion."
"This is a book to divide opinion."
"Even in this book, without the ballast of a sustained argument, there's a deliberation in her pacing that keeps everything moving ..."
"a series of brief-but-potent meditations on women ..."
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