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Cargando... Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford: The Biographypor Laura Thompson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Thompson paints a fully realized portrait of Nancy Mitford, one of the most intriguing women of the 20th Century. Thompson’s writing style befits the story of Mitford. She has a light, often irreverent touch, and brings charm and wit to her subject. Reading this biography is like drinks with a friend while she gives you the backstory on a mutual acquaintance you always wanted to know more about. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances and colleagues, prize-winning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant façade. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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