By Isabel Allende
Ballantine: 192 pages, $23
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Isabel Allende‘s prolific output has delighted readers around the world for more than 40 years. On Wednesday, HBO Max announced it will stream a three-part biopic, “Isabel,” about her extraordinary life, beginning March 12. And at 78, Allende is still delivering books that would make an up-and-comer’s career. Her latest, part memoir and part treatise on feminism, is “The Soul of a Woman.”
With arresting honesty, Allende’s memoir details the difficulties of being a progressive, a feminist and now an elder stateswoman: a male-dominated publishing landscape, a world that still exploits women and a culture where it can be hard for an author of a certain age to find love. Passion, she asserts, never wanes, though she’s had to make adjustments: “Before, I used to fantasize about a night in the c
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Isabel Allende: Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. Iâve never been scared of being alone
Allende has sold 75m books. In 2014, she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by Barack Obama. Photograph: max&douglas/Camera Press/Photomovie
Allende has sold 75m books. In 2014, she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by Barack Obama. Photograph: max&douglas/Camera Press/Photomovie
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