9780375701122
Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
Kennedy Fraser
ISBN 13: 9780375701122
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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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 Flauberts 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
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"...[T]he book is studded through with the sort of joyous, alert description that is uncommonly encountered in journalism or in criticism. As an almost faultless master of tone, Fraser is able to pass from scene to scene with a selfless vitality. You don't forget her presence..., but she never obscures the story she wants to tell."
Kirkus, 09/01/1996
Review:"[T]he excellence of Kennedy Fraser's writing on fashion and glamour has perhaps been equaled but has never been surpassed. In the seventies and early eighties, she continually noticed juxtapositions lost on almost everyone else....Despite a battalion of journalists on the fashion beat..., none write with Fraser's flair or authority....As the brilliance of her two previous books and the best of her new one show, fashion writing is--or can be--a lens through which to view the world."
Bruce Hainley, Nation, 02/03/1997
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