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Kyra

A Novel

Carol Gilligan

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Random House Trade Paperbacks
09 June 2009
An unforgettable novel about love--and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice (over 700,000 copies sold).

""The psychologist who transmuted our understanding of the female psyche...breaks new ground with Kyra..., a sensuous first novel exploring the permeable boundaries of women's inner and outer worlds...laying bare the 'revolutionary emotion' of love."" --O Magazine

From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel- a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman of humor and courage living in a vibrant world of family, friends, and colleagues and determined to break out of old structures. When she meets Andreas, a director staging an innovative production of Tosca, neither wants to fall in love-and yet, inevitably, they do. Their story takes us from Cambridge and an island off the coast of Massachusetts to Vienna, Thailand, Cyprus, and Wales as Kyra seeks the deepest truths about herself, other people, loyalty, and love. This reaching leads her to commit singular acts that startle and shock, inspiring new freedom for others as well as for Kyra herself. Rich with Carol Gilligan's signature gifts-emotional wisdom, subtle renderings of the intricacies of human relationship, conflict and choice, and lyrical prose-Kyra is a luminous, magnificent novel by a writer realizing the range of her powers.
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Imprint:   Random House Trade Paperbacks
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   204g
ISBN:   9780812971231
ISBN 10:   081297123X
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Carol Gilligan is a psychologist and writer who lives in New York City and in the Berkshires. Her ground-breaking book, In a Different Voice- Psychological Theory' and Women's Development, has been translated into eighteen languages. With her students, she co-authored and co-edited four books on women's psychology and girls' development- Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy- Reframing Resistance. At Harvard, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university's Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University.

Reviews for Kyra: A Novel

A sensuous first novel exploring the permeable boundaries of women's inner and outer worlds. -- O: The Oprah Magazine<br><br> <br> A rare thing: an engrossing, deeply emotional, thinking person's love story. -- San Francisco Chronicle<br> <br> Both a thought-provoking polemic and a love story. -- New York Times Book Review <br><br> An enthralling novel, tender, scary, and compelling. It crackles with a fierce intelligence and keeps the reader mesmerized throughout. --Maggie Scarf<br><br> Ambitious . . . full of lyrical passages. -- Los Angeles Times<br> <br> The pleasures of this novel are many indeed. . . . Readers will find themselves haunted by [Kyra's] clear call to push against the boundaries of their lives. Love is a risk that is always worth taking, Gilligan reminds us. -- New Orleans Times-Picayune


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