Heartbreak

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'Andrea Dworkin's contentious reputation is a perfect example of media manipulation. This collection of memoirs, published to commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confirms that every bolshy, out-spoken freedom-fighter who is the anti-type of standard Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.' The Crack, 1 July 2006 'Dworkin appears before us, ravaged and thundering like one of Shakespeare's Plantagenet queens, to deliver her fearsome maledictions...one of the few remaining specimens of pure counterculture Romanticism' New York Times Book Review * Blurb from reviewer * '...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and realization.' * Blurb from reviewer * '...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.' * Blurb from reviewer * 'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book. In it, her great, passionate voice lives on.' * Daily Telegraph, The * 'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the gender studies section of any bookshop. Rather, it will be placed with all the other memoirs of victimised women. Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her persomality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour.' * Times * 'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners truth-telling.' * Times Literary Supplement *