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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
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Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself.
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. A winner of 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 letters 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.
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- Maryanne
- 17-04-2022
Struggled
Struggled and on several occasions was going to return. Didn't find engaging and narrator was very mechanical inparts.
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- Hiro
- 11-04-2022
Highly recommended
A splendid biography of my favourite poet. I initially thought a narration was a bit robotic, but, it gradually started to grow on me.
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