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The Bolter Knopf, 320 pp. CLR [rating:4] Dame Alysoun Had Nothing on Idina Sackville Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue She’d been respectable throughout her life. Married in church, husbands she had five, Not counting other company in youth; But thereof there’s no need to speak, in truth. __ In company well could she laugh and chat. The remedies of love she knew, perchance, For of that art she’d learned the old, old dance.
Biography She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania, drug use; but also gives us access to a fearless beauty with gifts of intelligence, wit, and extraordinary powers to attract the opposite sex. Then too, she reveals that her antics as combined with her endowments were nevertheless insufficient in her hunt for love and lasting affection. Like this: Like Loading... Published on June 5, 2020 The Bolter by Frances Osborne Knopf, 320 pp.
MOTHER By Elinor Carucci Prestel, $45 One of my favorite lines in all of literature is the opening line of a play by Harold Pinter in which one Northern English Laborer says to another, “I like art, but I’m not a c–t.” I don’t think there’s a better definition, or higher aspiration, of art appreciation. Art floats above us and we breath it in like an exquisite aroma. It nourishes us without having to explain how.
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