· Overview. “In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root,” observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know better than twenty-five-year-old Alice, passionately committed to her own suffering—an all-consuming addiction to food deprivation—as a divine form of self-knowledge?Edition description: Reprint. Stephanie Grant, writer of fiction and nonfiction. Author of Disgust: A Memoir (), The Map of Ireland, a New York Times "Modern Love" column, The Passion of Alice, and other literary creative writing works. Teaches and directs the MFA Program at American University. Work with LGBT organizations queer anti-racist activism. Genre. Literature Fiction, Gay Lesbian. edit data. Stephanie Grant’s first novel, The Passion of Alice, was published in by Houghton Mifflin, and was nominated for Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Map of Ireland, which was published by Scribner in March , is a contemporary retelling of Huck Finn that places female sexuality and friendship at /5.
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Find The Passion Of Alice by Grant, Stephanie at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. In her novel of self-acceptance, The Passion of Alice, Stephanie Grant paints a picture of a young woman stuck-not able to move forward with her life, and slowly fading away to nothingness. Alice is a 25 year old librarian who is hospitalized at the eating disorders clinic at the well-known Seaview Hospital after a heart attack caused by her extreme thinness. Overview. “In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root,” observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know better than twenty-five-year-old Alice, passionately committed to her own suffering—an all-consuming addiction to food deprivation—as a divine form of self-knowledge?.
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