The Woman with One Hundred Faces
The Lives and Legacy of Anaïs Nin
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:12th Jan '27
£40.00
This title is due to be published on 12th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A new biography of the celebrated, notorious author of erotic classics including Delta of Venus, re-examining her work and legacy
Who was Anaïs Nin? To some, she was a towering literary figure, whose late-life fame following the publication of her diaries changed the reading habits of a generation. To others, she was a failed novelist, better known for her affair with Henry Miller. Readers might know her best for her dollar-a-page erotica, never intended for publication; or celebrate her for her journals and avant-garde fiction, powerful statements of a woman's right to artistry. Achieving a cult following in the last decade of her life, her reputation took a shocking posthumous knock when she was revealed to be a bigamist, a fantasist and a compulsive liar, who engaged in an incestuous affair with her father.
Katherine Rowland's new biography is an unflinching, empathetic account of Nin's life, and a reckoning with her wild legacy. From this book emerges a figure who was a lover, a tyrant, an exploiter, a victim, but above all things, a writer.
In this intimate and sensitive biography, Rowland moves beyond Nin’s sexual legend and traumas to recover a radical artist whose explorations of desire, consciousness, freedom, and identity transformed the possibilities of autobiography, and anticipated questions of our own age. Richly researched and thrillingly paced, this is a fresh and compelling reassessment of a bold, gifted, and haunted woman who blurred the line between life and art, and who refused to live—or write—by anyone else’s rules. -- Heather Clark, author of * Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath *
In Katherine Rowland’s landmark biography, we meet the real Anaïs Nin ... meticulous research and clear-eyed assessment ... We owe Rowland a debt of gratitude for re-telling Nin’s story -- Charlotte Gordon, author of * Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley *
ISBN: 9780241844786
Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 45mm
Weight: 851g
544 pages