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Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.ONE OF ESQUIRE'S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"-for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest.
Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother-and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.
Zelda by Nacy Milford spent twenty-nine weeks in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list, was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, and was translated into twelve languages. Nancy Milford was a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey in 1999 and a Brown University Annenberg Fellow. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Vassar College, and Princeton University's American Studies Department this fall. She is a Literary Lion at the New York Public Library and a creator of the Writers Room. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a New Yorker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375760815 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375760814 |
| Title | Savage Beauty |
| Author | Nancy Milford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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