From one of The New Yorker's most revered writers comes "a brilliant collection" (The New York Times Book Review) about women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families--from Virginia Woolf and Flaubert's mistress to Russian novelist Nina Berberova and English naturalist Miriam Rothschild.
In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to...