After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
—· 416 p· 2022
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Overview
About
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection "A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." --Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
Pages
416
Galley Beggar Press
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose9
Interwoven Literary Portraits9
Feminist Intellectual History9
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Worldbuilding6
Pacing6
Plot twists4
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