Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312135254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen.” Chicago Tribune Book World“Absorbing biography This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of Seven Gothic Tales.” Victoria Glendinning, The Washington Post Book World. “This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live.” Margaret Drabble, The New York Times Book Review“Splendid, inestimably valuable I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted
Judith Thurman, critic and biographer, won the National Book Award and two foreign literary prizes for her work. The author of Cleopatra's Nose, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2007, and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, she is a staff writer at The New Yorke
Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been--as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale-- "a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other." Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.. Winner of the National Book AwardA brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time
The Woman Behind "Out of Africa" Amazon Customer "Isak Dinesen" is a thorough book on the life of this very interesting, hard-to-understand writer. Judith Thurman took on quite a helfy task in writing about this author. Dinesen's life was not easy, specifically because she didn't choose to make it so. She seemed to be after one thing in life .pleasure, in its. "Authoritative biography" according to Francsois. "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller" is a comprehensive and very insightful look at Karen Blixen, and reading this book you will have a very good idea of who she was, warts and all. Every now and then I had to wade through a boring page or two, especially the précis of some of her books. These short. Five Stars Margaret Connolly Fascinating woman who transcends many nontradional values