For Love Alone
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the sun-drenched harbourside of pre-war Sydney and the grey literary circles of London, For Love Alone chronicles the fierce, consuming journey of Teresa Hawkins — a brilliant, restless young woman who starves herself and saves every penny to follow a man she is not sure she even loves across the world, driven by a hunger for life that no one around her can understand. Christina Stead presents a portrait of female desire so raw and unrelenting that it reads less like a novel and more like a confession, tracking Teresa's passage from the suffocating domesticity of her father's household to the intellectual and erotic freedoms she pursues with single-minded, almost terrifying devotion. Stead writes with a lyrical ferocity that sets her apart from her contemporaries, weaving sharp social observation with an almost Lawrentian intensity of feeling — her prose simultaneously beautiful and merciless. For Love Alone, first published in 1944, stands as one of the great overlooked masterworks of twentieth-century literature, a blazing argument for a woman's right to self-determination at a time when such a claim was still radical. For readers who believe they have exhausted the canon of feminist fiction, Stead's novel arrives as a revelation — and a challenge.
Author: Christina Stead
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the sun-drenched harbourside of pre-war Sydney and the grey literary circles of London, For Love Alone chronicles the fierce, consuming journey of Teresa Hawkins — a brilliant, restless young woman who starves herself and saves every penny to follow a man she is not sure she even loves across the world, driven by a hunger for life that no one around her can understand. Christina Stead presents a portrait of female desire so raw and unrelenting that it reads less like a novel and more like a confession, tracking Teresa's passage from the suffocating domesticity of her father's household to the intellectual and erotic freedoms she pursues with single-minded, almost terrifying devotion. Stead writes with a lyrical ferocity that sets her apart from her contemporaries, weaving sharp social observation with an almost Lawrentian intensity of feeling — her prose simultaneously beautiful and merciless. For Love Alone, first published in 1944, stands as one of the great overlooked masterworks of twentieth-century literature, a blazing argument for a woman's right to self-determination at a time when such a claim was still radical. For readers who believe they have exhausted the canon of feminist fiction, Stead's novel arrives as a revelation — and a challenge.