- Published: 15 November 2010
- ISBN: 9780099552055
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $25.00
George Sand
- Published: 15 November 2010
- ISBN: 9780099552055
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $25.00
She (Jack) is admirably familiar with the full extent of Sand's prolific output which enables her to feast on rich anecdotes and indulge us with pithy dictums...You are holly convinced that George Sand was a phenomenon
The Express
Belinda Jack's sympathetic rereading and spirited defence of George Sand's fiction sends one straight back to those ignored novels
Times Literary Supplement
This is clever stuff, brilliantly in key with late 20th century preoccupations. Here is a book for grownups
Robert Nye, The Scotsman
Jack's narrative of Sand's helter-skelter life - one so packed with love affairs and work and friendships and quarrels and travel that she seemed almost literally never to sleep - is swift, lucid and emotionally engaging...in looking behind the amazing spectacle at the vexed events and complex ideas that created it, Belinda Jack has written an illuminating and engaging book
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
Belinda Jack's excellent biography sets this life out against the back-drop of empire, republic, commune...She has made a fine use of rich material
Observer
It is Jack's particular triumph to show that George Sand was always more than the sexy rebel of popular imagining
Kathryn Hughes, Literary Review