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Description
Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.
Product Details
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publish Date | May 01, 2009 |
| Pages | 412 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780393336115 |
| Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.2 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Honor Moore is the author of two previous memoirs in A Daughter's Family Trilogy--The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book--as well as a play and three collections of poems. She lives in New York City.
Reviews
Ambitious and searching . . . as rich in casually telling detail as only an authentic family album could be.-- "The Nation"
Engrossing, beautifully written . . . but also touching in its candor about the flawed character of a beloved relation.-- "Boston Globe"
Haunting and . . . complex . . . part biography, part memoir, of the woman who happened to be [Honor Moore's] grandmother.-- "New York Times Book Review"
It is a virtue of this autobiographical biography that it succeeds in evoking the unfathomable nature of a personality.-- "New York Review of Books"
Engrossing, beautifully written . . . but also touching in its candor about the flawed character of a beloved relation.-- "Boston Globe"
Haunting and . . . complex . . . part biography, part memoir, of the woman who happened to be [Honor Moore's] grandmother.-- "New York Times Book Review"
It is a virtue of this autobiographical biography that it succeeds in evoking the unfathomable nature of a personality.-- "New York Review of Books"
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