Isabel Bolton (1883–1979)
Autor de New York Mosaic
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Isabel Bolton
In the days of thy youth 2 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Miller, Mary Britton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1883-08-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1979-04-05
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New London, Connecticut, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New London, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Ocupaciones
- novelist
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1953)
Miembros
Reseñas
Elegant writing which put me in mind of Virginia Woolf.
It's the early 1950s and as 84-year old Margaret Sylvester looks out of her New York apartment, where she lives in genteel quasi-poverty, she reflects on her life, and on the memoir she once wrote. She recalls being raised in an aristocratic 19th century household...an affair, a child she was otr allowed to keep. And later moving on with her own life, immersing herself in social activism, the friendships and the changing backdrop of society as Victorian mores give way to the Bright Young Things, and later yet to the outbreak of WW2.
Against the changing world, she recalls her first love, and later people who surface in her life, from the troublesome lodger to a young man in straitened circumstances whom she has just befriended... And momentary impressions and recollections flit across her memory- flowers, the seasons, a beautiful party she hosted...
I found this slow to get into but it definitely grows on you as you get into the character.… (más)
It's the early 1950s and as 84-year old Margaret Sylvester looks out of her New York apartment, where she lives in genteel quasi-poverty, she reflects on her life, and on the memoir she once wrote. She recalls being raised in an aristocratic 19th century household...an affair, a child she was otr allowed to keep. And later moving on with her own life, immersing herself in social activism, the friendships and the changing backdrop of society as Victorian mores give way to the Bright Young Things, and later yet to the outbreak of WW2.
Against the changing world, she recalls her first love, and later people who surface in her life, from the troublesome lodger to a young man in straitened circumstances whom she has just befriended... And momentary impressions and recollections flit across her memory- flowers, the seasons, a beautiful party she hosted...
I found this slow to get into but it definitely grows on you as you get into the character.… (más)
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starbox | Nov 11, 2018 |
starbox | Nov 11, 2018 | 
36 hours in the life of a minor writer on the New York scene. Europe is about to erupt into World War II. A young friend of the writer, a charming young woman who is more adventuress than not, has a quarter-Jewish child who is caught in Europe and an older male novelist (who doesn't have the money) is willing to go to any lengths to bribe her out. The whole story is bounded by alcohol-fueled lunches, dinners and parties and when a small but violent incident occurs, the world of the two older novelists is seriously fractured. This was an interesting book, but the main character is somewhat ambivalent and a good minority of the text is taken up with impressionist ramblings which I wasn't that interested in.… (más)
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- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 155
- Popularidad
- #135,097
- Valoración
- 3.2
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Her descriptions in this collection of short novels—of interior lives amid the clamor of an ever-changing world, in the glare of Manhattan’s myriad streetlights and social scenes, and of the very real horrors of aging and becoming more aware that the world (the city) will go on without you—are so incredibly incisive and heart-rending to read, to cherish, to admire.
Do your part in unburying Bolton if the modernist lineage above is your cuppa.… (más)