Tissue

'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' – Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a meditative and personal look at a procedure that is common yet vilified, championed yet sometimes grieved. Tissue looks at the feelings of guilt around choice, exploring the language we use, or don't, and how the silence shapes the way we think and feel about the act. Abortion has many facets. Tissue lays each of them bare, meticulously unravelling how the world-at-large responds to abortion, inviting us into the messy and complex realities imbedded in such a politicised act of agency. At a time when women around the world are losing their right to access safe abortion, this book is needed more than ever. These Three Long Stories Draw Us Into The Lives Of Three Women, All Past Their First Youth, All Facing Unexpected Crises. In The Title Story, The Heroine's Serenity Is Shattered When She Learns That Her Husband Is Having An Affair. In The Age Of Discretion, A Successful, Happily Married Professor Finds Herself Increasingly Distressed By Her Son's Absorption In His Young Wife And Her Worldly Values. In The Monologue, A Rich, Spoiled Woman, Home Alone On New Year's Eve, Pours Out A Lifetime's Rage And Frustration In A Harrowing Diatribe. Enthralling As Fiction, Suffused With De Beauvoir's Remarkable Insights Into Women, The Woman Destroyed Gives Us A Legendary Writer At Her Best. Three Long Stories That Draw The Reader Into The Lives Of Three Women, All Past Their First Youth, All Facing Unexpected Crises. The Age Of Discretion -- The Monologue -- The Woman Destroyed. Simone De Beauvoir ; Translated From The French By Patrick O'brian. Reprint. Originally Published: London : Collins, 1969. One of the most influential thinkers of her generationdraws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times).Suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes'The Age of Discretion,''The Monologue,'and'The Woman Destroyed.''Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation.'—The Atlantic These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of Discretion," a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. -- Back cover