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Charlotte Greig
Dear Librarian, A GIRL'S GUIDE TO MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY is a novel that I hope you'll file under fiction, but like Sophie's World, it's also an introduction to some of the great thinkers of our time. My heroine, Susannah Jones, is a young philosophy student who is enjoying the social and sexual freedom of 1970s university life until an unplanned pregnancy lands her in an impossible dilemma. Forced to look beyond her friends and lovers for support, she turns to her philosophy books for advice, finding help and inspiration in the lessons of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and others. This is an affectionate coming-of-age story that I hope readers will find funny and moving, but it also has a serious aim, which is to show how philosophy can sometimes help us to make important moral choices in our lives. To enter to win one of five free copies or to request a book club call-in, please contact me at mwalker@otherpress.com. All best wishes, Charlotte
A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosoph / Charlotte Greig / Other Press / Paperback; 288 Pages
Price: $14.95 / ISBN: 978-1590513170 / Published: May, 2009 Charlotte Greig is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |