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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer Paperback - 1998
by Fraser, Kennedy
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Fraser brings to the 14 essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that makes her reportage for "The New York Times" so legendary. "Wonderfully idiosyncratic".--"Newsday".
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- Title Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
- Author Fraser, Kennedy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-04-28
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0375701125_new
- ISBN 9780375701122 / 0375701125
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.49 x 0.66 in (21.72 x 13.94 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Authors' spouses, Women authors
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96011479
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.892
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In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at "The New Yorker, tending her English garden and--on every page--delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.
"A wonderfully idiosyncratic set of essays on women famous and unknown whose public and private lives Fraser examines with great feeling and exactitude...insight, intelligence, and grace."--Newsday
"Subtlety, fluency, candor, an agile sensate intellect--Kennedy Fraser brings all these gifts to bear on a subject that is not always contemplated so untendentiously, with such independence of mind, and from such a generous and worldly point of view."--Phillip Roth
"A wonderfully idiosyncratic set of essays on women famous and unknown whose public and private lives Fraser examines with great feeling and exactitude...insight, intelligence, and grace."--Newsday
"Subtlety, fluency, candor, an agile sensate intellect--Kennedy Fraser brings all these gifts to bear on a subject that is not always contemplated so untendentiously, with such independence of mind, and from such a generous and worldly point of view."--Phillip Roth
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- New York Times, 05/24/1998, Page 20