{"product_id":"human-relations-and-other-difficulties-essays-9781250750105","title":"Human Relations and Other Difficulties: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incisive collection of essays by the editor of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, whom Hilary Mantel has called \"a presiding genius\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992. Her editorial life began long before that: she started at Faber and Faber in the time of T. S. Eliot, then worked at the \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e, and then at the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. As John Lanchester says in his introduction, she has been extracting literary works from reluctant writers for more than fifty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs well as an editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers is, and has been throughout her career, a writer. The deeply considered pieces in \u003ci\u003eHuman Relations and Other Difficulties\u003c\/i\u003e, whether on Jean Rhys, Alice James, a nineteenth-century edition of the Pears' Cyclopaedia, novel reviewing, Joan Didion, mistresses, seduction, or her own experience of parenthood, are sparkling, funny, and absorbing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnderlying all these essays is a concern with the relation between the genders: the effect men have on women, and the ways in which men limit and frame women's lives. Wilmers holds these patterns up to cool scrutiny, and gives a crisp and sometimes cutting insight into the hard work of being a woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary-Kay Wilmers is the co-founder and longtime editor of the \u003ci\u003eLRB\u003c\/i\u003e. After a childhood spent in America, Belgium and England, Wilmers went to Oxford to read French and Russian. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Eitingons\u003c\/i\u003e, a book about her family and their cold war deeds and misdeeds, which the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e called \"transfixingly readable.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478197670162,"sku":"9781250750105","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0677ebdd-795d-41c1-96e3-61f6bb64e417.jpg?v=1730288514","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/human-relations-and-other-difficulties-essays-9781250750105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}