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Mary Olivier

Mary Olivier

A Life

by May` Sinclair
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/06/2002

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Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, Mary Olivier: A Life is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of freedom and responsibility with empathy and power. May Sinclair's finest novel stands comparison with the work of Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, and the young Virginia Woolf.

As a child, Mary Olivier's dreamy disposition and fierce intelligence set her apart from her Victorian family, especially her mother, "Little Mamma," whose dazzling looks cannot hide her meager love for her only daughter. Mary grows up in a world of her own, a solitude that leaves her free to explore her deepest passions, for literature and philosophy, for the austere beauties of England's north country, even as she continues to attend to her family. But in time the independence Mary values--at almost any cost--threatens to become a form of captivity itself.
ISBN:
9780940322868
9780940322868
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-06-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
201.93x129.29x25.4mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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