Sita - Softcover

Millett, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345286898 ISBN 13: 9780345286895

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1979

Synopsis

Records the moment-by-moment pains and respites of a fading love affair between the author and an older, several-times-married woman whose dramatically varied life and large-gestured, temperamental approach to her lover and her several grown children cannot be contained

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Review:

"A bold and passionate book named for the woman who was Millett's lover at the time she was writing. When Sita committed suicide in 1978, Millett composed four prose elegies in her memory... [This] edition includes one of these elegies, published for the first time. Its addition enriches the story of the woman it celebrates. " -- Ms. Magazine "I stayed with [the book] as compulsively as Kate stayed with her beloved Sita." -- Chicago Tribune Book World "Sita is the fervid and fragmented tale of a woman impassioned and in love -- with a woman. It is Millett's autobiographical account of her long affair with Sita... This 2000 edition is prefaced briefly by Millett, who reexamines the contemporary importance of the text as lesbian literature." -- The Bloomsbury Review "The impression the book gives is of total honesty... Not a single detail -- emotional or anatomical -- has been left out. What lies at its heart is the head-on clash between, on the one hand, the communal and permissive ideals of the period and, on the other, the simple human need for personal space, and the knowledge that one person on Earth is, in however qualified a way, your own... This was a time when everyone was high in one way or another, desperate not to impose an ideology on anyone else, yet at the same time hyper-conscious of the brevity of life, its beauty, and its possibilities. This, at least, is what comes across in this magnificent book, so that 1977 feels like a paradise lost, despite the anguish and frustration that burn in words of fire across every page." -- Bradley Winterton, South China Morning Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0345286898
• ISBN 13: 9780345286895
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback