Sexing the Millennium: Women and the Sexual Revolution
(A cultural analysis of the origins and effects of the sex...)
A cultural analysis of the origins and effects of the sexual revolution advocates the continuing need for women to have a free and active erotic life as an integral part of female power and autonomy.
(This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about...)
This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about individuals but about the history they move through. Whether the scene is Liverpool in the Blitz, a potato-chip factory in the prairies or a seedy hotel room in Hanoi, the writing is immediate.
(It is one woman's story of discovery-of herself, of her h...)
It is one woman's story of discovery-of herself, of her heritage, and of the nation that would one day become Israel. It is April 1946. For a weary and exhausted Europe, it's a time to begin picking up the pieces of the past, and for the armies of displaced persons on the move to slowly return home-if they still have one. But for Evelyn Sert, a twenty-year-old woman from London standing on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine, it is a time of adventure and a time of change when anything seems possible.
(Alix - arrogant, middle-aged, and angry - comes home to t...)
Alix - arrogant, middle-aged, and angry - comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life, she suddenly finds herself attracted to a stranger. Joseph is an American architect who has come to the city to build a hotel. Refusing to accept that his wife has left him or the trauma of a war he once fought in, the question is whether these survivors of the battles of the 70s are meant for each other or not.
(The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda...)
The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the centre of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the more I thought that they depended for their implementation on a population of table football men, painted in the colours of the two teams: blue and white for the Israelis, green, red and black for the Palestinians. All the international community had to do was to twist the levers and the little players would kick and swing and send the ball into the net, to victory' One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for Linda Grant's exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis - not the government and its policies, but the people themselves, in all their variety.
(Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman...)
Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals. In vivid and supple prose, Grant subtly constructs a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present.
The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter
(For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed ...)
For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fashion or not, because how we choose to dress defines who we are. How we look and what we wear tells a story. Some stories are simple, like the teenager trying to fit in, or the woman turning fifty renouncing invisibility. Some are profound, like that of the immigrant who arrives in a new country and works to blend in by changing the way she dresses, or of the woman whose hat saved her life in Nazi Germany. The Thoughtful Dresser celebrates the pleasure of adornment and is an elegant meditation on our relationship with what we wear and the significance of clothes as the most intimate but also public expressions of our identity.
(A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur stora...)
A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. When he grows up, Stephen goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid the draft and Vietnam. He marries an Englishwoman, and they experience many of the things the baby boomer generation went through. Later the torch is passed to their children.
(When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the ch...)
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways.
Linda Grant is a British journalist and writer. She worked as a feature writer for the Guardian and had a weekly column in G2.
Background
Linda Grant was born on February 15, 1951, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft. Both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian - and they adopted the surname Grant in the early 1950s.
Education
Linda was educated at the Belvedere School, received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of York, completed a Master of Arts in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and did further post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Linda Grant lived in Canada from 1977 to 1984. In 1985 she returned to Britain and became a journalist. From 1995 to 2000 she was a feature writer for the Guardian, where between 1997 and 1998 she also had a weekly column in G2. She contributed regularly to the Weekend section on subjects including the background to the use of drug Ecstasy, body modification, racism against Romanies in the Czech Republic, her own journey to Jewish Poland and to her father's birthplace and during the Kosovo War, an examination of the background to Serb nationalism. For her column, she was shortlisted for the UK Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year Award in 1996.
Grant published her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, in 1993. She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with vascular dementia called Remind Me Who I Am, Again. It was cited in a discussion about ageing on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in December 2003. Linda's most recent work, A Stranger City, was published in May 2019. Her fiction draws heavily on her Jewish background, family history, and the history of Liverpool.
Linda has also written a radio play, Paul and Yolande, which was broadcast on Radio 4 in October 2006, and a short story, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, part of a week of stories by Liverpool writers commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was broadcast in July 2007.
She has also contributed to various collections of essays. Her work is translated into French, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Chinese.
Linda is currently living with her husband, Ron, who is a former science professor. She is the mother of two daughters and the stepmother of four other children from the past relation that her husband shared with another woman.