{"product_id":"george-sand-true-genius-true-woman-9781914224201","title":"George Sand: True Genius, True Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women's rights, gender expression, and sexual liberation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Sand: True Genius, True Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century French literature. Born in 1804--at a time when women were deprived of their civil rights (along with minors, criminals, and the insane)--Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin grew up to defy those norms, both in her life and her writing. Adopting the gender-neutral pen name George Sand, and in a career lasting over forty years as a novelist and playwright, she is best remembered today for the affairs and friendships she enjoyed with men: the composer Chopin; the painter Delacroix; the novelist Balzac. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But this moving biographical portrait, written by award-winner Séverine Vidal and illustrated by Kim Consigny, restores her to the center stage she always commanded in her lifetime. Not just as the daring, scandalously cross-dressing, bisexual, cigarette-smoking divorcée novelist, but as the brilliant chronicler of her changing time--and therefore of ours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eS?verine Vidal\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1969, lives in Gironde in the South of France, and has worked as a full-time writer for over ten years. A prizewinning author of children's and young adult fiction, her debut online work, \u003ci\u003e A Tale Off the Top of My Head\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Claire Fauchet (2012), was described as an \"outstanding\" work of \"poetic writing.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Consigny \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1991 in the south of France, and qualified as an architect there in 2015, but has increasingly devoted herself since to a full-time celebrated career in illustration, including a longstanding collaboration with S?verine Vidal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Selfmadehero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892162564370,"sku":"9781914224201","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_933408fd-6578-49f2-b733-0215c74ebd94.jpg?v=1738178932","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/george-sand-true-genius-true-woman-9781914224201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}