{"product_id":"becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand","title":"Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand","description":"\u003cp\u003eSand seems as alive as if she had just walked out of the room... quietly witty... fascinating' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e' Thought-provoking ... written with energy, passion and commitment to its fascinating subject' Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the age of thirty, the novelist who had been born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her daring literary experiments were out-selling even Victor Hugo. But the legend of Sand herself scandalised Paris. Not only prodigiously talented but cigar-smoking, cross-dressing and promiscuous, she seemed to break all the rules society set for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from the way she lived? Was her iconoclasm simply an act of courage, a declaration of absolute autonomy? Or did her emotional and creative relationships with many of the leading figures of her day – from Fryderyk Chopin to Gustave Flaubert , and Alfred de Musset to Eugène Delacroix – form part of her dialogue with the world around her: a dialogue that is intrinsic to writing itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Becoming George , award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson rehabilitates Sand as an intellectual and artistic giant , the beating heart of French literature in the nineteenth century. Too often underestimated in the century and a half since her death, she speaks to us today – about ecology, politics, society, gender – with brilliant prescience; a figure ahead of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the American Library in Paris Award 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Fiona Sampson:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fiona Sampson beautifully describes the “self-invention” of George Sand , the Romantic period’s most famous woman writer, and in the process paints a vivid portrait of a world in the throes of political and artistic revolution. ' Maurice Samuels, Professor of French, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘ Fiona Sampson is a sleuth of a biographer ... rarely has my jaw dropped on so many occasions while reading a biography.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Daily Mail on In Search of Mary Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘ Brilliant, heart-stopping ... reads like a thriller, a memoir and a provocative piece of literary fiction all at the same time ... magical and compelling .’ Charlotte Gordon, Washington Post on Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘ If we get another literary biography [this year] as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky .’ John Carey, The Sunday Times on In Search of Mary Shelley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54000234692976,"sku":"978-1529924336","price":9.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_2641_103c8123bd.jpg?v=1783521230","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}