Leaning Toward Infinity

by Sue Woolfe

Book Overview

Woolfe's sensual and powerfully moving meditation on the relationship between mothers and daughters explores, prods, and picks at the force of genius--and the actions of genius--equally casting a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571199054
• ISBN13: 9780571199051
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Infinite reading

I wanted this book to continue. I loved it. I read it about the same time as some other books ...Hanna's Daughters was one, and I thought it had every bit as much to say about mother-daughter relationships. Also 'Gut Symmetries' by Janette Winterson, which I did not like...this had more to say about the mathematical woman genius. It makes the point rendered over and over by Dale Spencer in 'Women of Ideas and What Men have Done To Them' but in a fictionalised account, well plotted and without the hyperbole to which Spender is prone.Woolfe is a good writer, and her use of language approaches the delights of Arundhati Roy in God of mall Things (but never surpasses).

Beautiful piece of writing

I loved it. Beautiful piece of prose. Funny, sad - some of the relationships heart-wrenchingly so. Haunted me for a long while after.I think Carol Shields fans would like it.

Demanding, rewarding, stunning

A demanding, but very rewarding exploration of the destructiveness of unrecognised genius, through the lives of three generations of women. The mother is on the verge of discovering a new form of mathematics, but is driven mad by social isolation and betrayal. The narrator, her daughter, attempts to piece together her work. Meanwhile, her daughter is trying to get her attention ... A stunning novel.