Background
Irini Spanidou was born on May 27, 1946, in Trikala, Greece. In 1964, she immigrated to the United States, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1983. Irini is the daughter of a Greek military officer.
1 Mead Way, Bronxville, NY 10708, USA
Irini received a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Irini received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.
(The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and place of c...)
The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and place of creativity, sexual freedom, and unforeseen dangers. At its center is Beatrice, who is twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely, intelligent, and married to Ned, a volatile painter whose obsession with her has turned to hatred. Beatrice is desired by everyone around her: by Faye, her seductive, bawdy childhood friend; by Cyril, a lonely, charismatic Vietnam veteran; by Chris, a young heroin addict. And then there is Perkins, the oddly threatening man next door.
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2008
(Set amid the arid landscape and stony resentments of Gree...)
Set amid the arid landscape and stony resentments of Greece in the aftermath of its bloody civil war, this electrifying novel unfolds a series of interconnecting modern-day fables about childhood and family, love and betrayal. God’s Snake is the story of the inventive, courageous Anna, a young girl who has inherited both the skepticism of classical Athens and the fierce stoicism of Sparta. It is also the story of Anna’s parents: her mother, a woman as remote as she is seductive, and her father, a misogynist army officer who, when Anna cries, tells her, “we are not born to be comforted.”
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1986
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Irini Spanidou's highly praised first novel, God's Snake, introduced a writer of rare perception and a character, Anna Karystinou, with whom readers fell in love. In Fear, the author returns to Anna as she comes of age.
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1998
Irini Spanidou was born on May 27, 1946, in Trikala, Greece. In 1964, she immigrated to the United States, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1983. Irini is the daughter of a Greek military officer.
Irini received a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.
To support herself while she was writing, Ms. Spanidou undertook a number of jobs - as a copy editor in a publishing house and as a freelance proofreader working weekends at Newsweek. In Greenwich Village she worked as a cashier in a deli on University Place.
''God's Snake'' did not connect immediately when it was first submitted by her agent, Rhoda A. Weyr. Then it was sent to Kathleen M. Anderson, an editor at W. W. Norton, who enthusiastically acquired the book on the basis of the first two chapters. The novel is now a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and has also been sold to several foreign publishers. Spanidou is also the author of Fear and Before novels.
Spanidou taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Cooper Union, Warren Wilson College, Bennington College, and Brooklyn College.
(The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and place of c...)
2008(Set amid the arid landscape and stony resentments of Gree...)
1986(Irini Spanidou's highly praised first novel, God's Snake,...)
1998Quotations: "I wanted to write a book about innocence, our start in the world, what’s mysterious. We’re born with expectations of love and not with knowledge of evil. The first time anyone hurts us, it’s a surprise. My aim was to show how a child comes to terms with hurt. The world of children, the anger and feeling, is a microcosm of the world of adults."