{"product_id":"9780198827689","title":"Why Women Read Fiction : The Stories of Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Taylor, Helen (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Exeter), \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 16\/01\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, 32 Illustrations,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e Published By: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOxford University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Literary studies: fiction novelists \u0026amp; prose writers, Gender studies: women\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780198827689\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIan McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFemale readers are key to the future of fiction and-as parents, teachers, and librarians-the glue for a literate society. Women treasure the chance to read alone, but have also gregariously shared reading experiences and memories with mothers, daughters,grandchildren, and female friends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor so many, reading novels and short stories enables them to escape and to spread their wings intellectually and emotionally. This book, written by an experienced teacher, scholar of women's writing, and literature festival director, draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers. It describes how, where, and when British women read fiction, and examines why stories and writers influence the way female readers understand and shape their own life stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaylor explores why women are the main buyers and readers of fiction, members of book clubs, attendees at literary festivals, andorganisers of days out to fictional sites and writers' homes. The book analyses the special appeal and changing readership of the genres of romance, erotica, and crime. It also illuminates the reasons for British women's abiding love of two favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTayloroffers a cornucopia of witty and wise women's voices, of both readers themselves and also writers such as Hilary Mantel, Helen Dunmore, Katie Fforde, and Sarah Dunant. The book helps us understand why-in Jackie Kay's words-'our lives are mapped by books.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35023109390489,"sku":"9780198827689","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780198827689.jpg?v=1604867120","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780198827689","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}