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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9781555531157
ISBN: 1555531156
Label: Northeastern
Manufacturer: Northeastern
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 472
Publication Date: October 08, 1991
Publisher: Northeastern
Studio: Northeastern
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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
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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: 9781555531157
ISBN: 1555531156
Label: Northeastern
Manufacturer: Northeastern
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 472
Publication Date: October 08, 1991
Publisher: Northeastern
Studio: Northeastern