A fond, fascinated look at female friendship using the writings - fictional, diaries, letters - of friends.
Friendship has never been more talked about. Some of this has to do with the internet (the perils of WhatsApp groups, and of ghosting), and some, with the Covid-19 pandemic. Friendship is being written about, and researched, seriously, by therapists and scientists alike. But it's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity; its singular ease; the way it can wax and wane; its ability to cause uncommon pain. This is the territory of novels and letters, poems and plays - which is where The Virago Book of Friendship steps in: celebratory, but also explanatory here is book wide in scope: one that includes not only the thoughts of Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, but of Alison Bechdel, Nan Goldin and Vivian Gornick, Helen Garner and Sheila Heti. And school stories, of course, because that's where it all begins...
- ISBN10 034901843X
- ISBN13 9780349018430
- Publish Date 5 September 2024
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English