About women
Subtitle: conversations between a writer and a painter
By: Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot
Contributors: Gilot, Françoise, 1921- author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780385539869
Subjects: Painters; American Authors; Women painters; Biography; American Women authors
Description: "Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts, while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation, in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, fashion, self-invention, style, feminism, even child rearing. They also talk about the creative impulse and the importance of art. This is a charming and endearing dialogue between two intelligent and often funny women as they ponder what it is to be a woman"--