Zor Kadinlara Övgü

by Karen Karbo

Paperback. 14,00 / 21,00 cm. In Turkish. 352 p. Translated by Simay Yildiz Edited by Görkem Demirkan Modern tarihteki 29 kadina zarifçe hazirlanmis illüstrasyonlarla övgüde bulunan bu kitapta çok satan yazar Karen Karbo kendi kurallarina göre yasayan olaganüstü bir toplulugu kutluyor. Frida Kahlo'dan Elizabeth Taylor'a, Edie Sedgwick, Lena Dunham, Laverne Cox ve J.K. Rowling'e bu cesur kural yikicilar yollarina sosyal ve kültürel beklentileri pek gözetmeden çizdiler. Onlarin mükemmel olmayan, zarif, karmasik ve ihtisamli hayatlari hem yolu aydinlatiyor hem de ilham veriyor. Hillary Clinton'in hiç durmayan politik kariyerinden Angela Merkel'in bilim insanindan baskanliga yükselisine, Amelia Earhart'in ilk Atlantik uçusuna ve Josephine Baker'in çigir açan muzetegi dansina kadar bu dikkate deger kadinlardan her biri standartlara uymayan bir sekilde hareke etmenin yanlis bir sey olmadigini ortaya koyuyor.

352 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Karen Karbo's first novel, Trespassers Welcome Here, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Village Voice Top Ten Book of the Year. Her other two adult novels, The Diamond Lane and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me, were also named New York Times Notable Books. The Stuff of Life, about the last year she spent with her father before his death, was an NYT Notable Book, a People Magazine Critics' Choice, a Books for a Better Life Award finalist, and a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.

Karbo is most well known for her international best-selling Kick Ass Women series, which examines the lives of a quartet of iconic 20th century women. Julia Child Rules (2013), How Georgia Became O'Keeffe (2011), The Gospel According to Coco Chanel (2009), and How to Hepburn (2007)

Her short stories, essays, articles and reviews have appeared in Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, O, More, The New Republic, The New York Times, salon.com and other magazines. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, was a winner of the General Electric Younger Writer Award, and was one of 24 writers chosen for the inaugural Amtrak Writers residency.

In addition, Karbo penned three books in the Minerva Clark mystery series for children: Minerva Clark Gets A Clue, Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs, and Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost.

She is the co-author, with Gabrielle Reece, of Big Girl in the Middle, and the New York Times bestselling, My Foot is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less than Perfect Life.

Karbo also contributed to the anthologies, The Bitch is Back and What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most.

Karen grew up in Los Angeles, California and lives in Portland, Oregon where she continues to kick ass.