Hemlock: Old Women in Bloom

by Hélène Cixous

Book Overview

A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, H l ne Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy, narrative and meditation in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but
still truculent mother and her writer-daughter, between the mother and her sister, and between the writer and her vanished but nonetheless intensely present friend, Jacques Derrida, whose death is movingly evoked. "I have in mind two lovely faces, old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745648681
• ISBN13: 9780745648682
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"