The Reviews

Reviews of Nine Lives are coming in. See Kirkus Book Reviews for the most recent one. I excerpt here the sentences I liked best:

…Kahane’s compelling writing illuminates life during the turbulent 20th century from a female perspective often missing from history. The extensive descriptions of travel, varying from free-spirited, low-budget adventures through Europe, North Africa, and North America to professional conferences in Poland and China, are likewise fascinating. An engaging memoir of life lived to its fullest.

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By Claire Kahane

Claire Kahane spent part of the 1950s and 60s on the road, propelled by a lust for adventure, and the will to challenge the expectations for women of her family and culture. Years later, as a Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, and informed by her study of psychoanalysis, she wrote and edited books and essays which explored gender conflict in modern fiction, the dark appeal of Gothic literature, Holocaust trauma, and the perverse novels of Ian McEwan. Her memoir, Nine Lives, testifies to her dynamic re-invention of self over nine decades. She lives in Berkeley and continues to write both memoir pieces and literary criticism.

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