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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Paperback

by Nancy Milford
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nancy MilfordPublish date:2002-09-10Pages:608
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375760815ISBN-10:375760814UPC:9780375760815Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, PoetrySize:8.04 x 5.21 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC8FZ98PEZ
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375760815ISBN-10:375760814UPC:9780375760815Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, PoetrySize:8.04 x 5.21 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC8FZ98PEZ
Nacy Milford's Zelda spent twenty-nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was translated into twelve languages. Nancy Milford was a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey in 1999, and an Annenberg Fellow at Brown Unviersity. She has taught at the University of Michigan, at Vassar College, and will be in the American Studies Program at Princeton University this fall. She is a founder of the Writers Room, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Literary Lion at The New York Public Library. She lives in New York.
Publisher: Random House Trade

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