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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Milford, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Corner of one page creased.
- ISBN 10
- 039457589X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394575896
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2001. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Corner of one page creased.. xviii, 550, [3] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Thirty years after the smashing success of "Zelda", Milford returns with a stunning second act. "Savage Beauty" is the portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself.
Synopsis
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.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.
Reviews
On Mar 29 2014, a reader said:
"Savage Beauty" is about Edna St. Vincent Millay. I knew nothing about her, but the title grabbed my attention at a book sale. I could not put the book down! She was a fascinating, but sad, person. The book is interspersed with some of her poetry. I rarely read poetry, and yet, it worked for me, especially in the context of this book. Much of the information for this bio was obtained from journals/diaries held by Millay's sister, which had not previously been released. A thoroughly fascinating book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60595
- Title
- Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author
- Milford, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear. Corner of one page creased.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated
- ISBN 10
- 039457589X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394575896
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Barnard College, John Peale, Eugen Boissevain, Gladys Brown, Witter Bynner, Floyd Dell, George Dillon, Caroline Dow, Max Eastman, Arthur Ficke, Mitechell Kennerley, Eugene Saxton, Steepletop Estate, Vassar, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie
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