{"product_id":"9781868422982","title":"Bodies Politic, by Michiel Heyns (used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond-hand copy — condition: good.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tell him you love bim; he has only three weeks to live\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of massive public events - the tenacious, at times violent struggle for the vote for women and the First World War - Bodies Politic examines, in fictionalised form, the private lives of the participants in these events, focused through the highly articulate accounts of three suffragettes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving, dramatic and at times grimly humorous, Bodies Politic is an entirely original account of great love and bitter resentment, political victory and personal defeat; but ultimately of the indomitable spirit that escapes the shackles of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three women who look back on a past they shared, not always harmoniously, are Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable leader of the Women's Movement; her daughter Sylvia, the weeping suffragette; and the enchanting Helen, who was loved by Harry, the neglected son of Emmeline and beloved brother of Sylvia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the narrative of each woman fits the figure of Christabel, Mrs Pankhurst's favourite daughter: selfish, vain but irresistible. The three accounts, sometimes contradictory, sometimes confirmatory, movingly reconstruct Harry's last days and the human entanglements behind the public acts of the time: Sylvia's sacrifice in bringing Helen to Harry's bedside, Emmeline's bitterness at Sylvia's act, and Helens ambivalence about Sylvia's extraordinary request: \"Tell him you love him; he has only three weeks to live\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50653543465218,"sku":"9781868422982","price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/view_archive_b278363a-4902-4868-bed9-157911a816c4.jpg?v=1791298841","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9781868422982","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}