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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780689118159
ISBN: 0689118155
Label: Atheneum Books
Manufacturer: Atheneum Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 472
Publication Date: 1990-07
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Sales Rank: 1921770
Studio: Atheneum Books
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Rating:  - Less is Moore
Because he didn't get permission to quote from Marianne Moore's family correspondence, and because she led an outwardly uneventful life, Charles Molesworth falls into the trap of more or less paraphrasing from Moore's letters to tell her story, leaving some of the big questions about this unlikely Modernist nearly untouched. He doesn't seem to see anything unusual in Moore's relationship with her mother, who she lived with for the first 60 years of her life and whose letters and sayings became such ... Read More
Rating:  - Very good information
This book is quite informative -- the author has clearly done solid and serious research for many years to write such a book. However, the book is incredibly boring -- it has no through-line, no plot, just chronological plodding through year after year without any sense of how to tell a story, much less write one. The style is extremely uneven and at times just pure aggravation. He actually uses words like "ignorable," a word that is not in my Webster's Unabridged but that obviously means easily ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780689118159
ISBN: 0689118155
Label: Atheneum Books
Manufacturer: Atheneum Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 472
Publication Date: 1990-07
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Sales Rank: 1921770
Studio: Atheneum Books