{"product_id":"wayward-girls-and-wicked-women-isbn-9780140103717","title":"Wayward Girls and Wicked Women","description":"In Elizabeth Jolley's \"The Last Crop,\" a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land.  In Leonora Carrinton's \"The Debutante,\" a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results.  The title character in Frances Towers's \"Violet\" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention.  Jamaica Kincaid's \"Girl\" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right.  But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not victims.  None of them suffers passively at the hands of men.  Each manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them.Wayward Girls and Wicked WomenAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eELIZABETH JOLLEY: The Last Crop\u003cbr\u003eLEONORA CARRINGTON: The Débutante\u003cbr\u003eROCKY GÁMEZ: \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Gloria Stories\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE HEAD: Life\u003cbr\u003eJANE BOWLES: A Guatemalan Idyll\u003cbr\u003eKATHERINE MANSFIELD: The Young Girl\u003cbr\u003eSUNITI NAMJOSHI: Three Feminist Fables\u003cbr\u003eCOLETTE: The Rainy Moon\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE EGERTON: Wedlock\u003cbr\u003eFRANCES TOWERS: Violet\u003cbr\u003eAMA ATA AIDOO: The Plums\u003cbr\u003eGRACE PALEY: A Woman Young and Old\u003cbr\u003eANDRÉE CHEDID: The Long Trial\u003cbr\u003eANGELA CARTER: The Loves of Lady Purple\u003cbr\u003eDJUNA BARNES: The Earth\u003cbr\u003eVERNON LEE: Oke of Okehurst\u003cbr\u003eJAMAICA KINCAID: Girl\u003cbr\u003eLUO SHU: Aunt Liu\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Authors\u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (1940 -1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for \u003cb\u003eNeil Jordan's\u003c\/b\u003e 1984 movie \u003cb\u003eThe Company of Wolves\u003c\/b\u003e, based on her story. She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305092272357,"sku":"NP9780140103717","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140103717.jpg?v=1767743650","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/wayward-girls-and-wicked-women-isbn-9780140103717","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}