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Isak Dinesen
The Life of a Storyteller
by Judith Thurman
ISBN: 0312135254
ISBN-13: 9780312135256
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This masterly, thorough, and immensely enlightening biography, originally published in 1982, was the winner of a National Book Award.
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"This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live." -- Margaret Drabble
-- New York Times Book Review
"Absorbing biography...This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of 'Seven Gothic Tales.'" -- Victoria Glendinning
-- Washington Post Book World
"Splendid, inestimably valuable...I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen."
-- Chicago Tribune Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr Special
Published date: 1995
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.55 pounds
Publisher's Notes
With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life--her privileged childhood in Denmark, her marriage to Baron Blixen and their immigration to Africa on the eve of the First World War, her passionate affair with Denys Finch Hatton. This biography was one of the sources for the film "Out of Africa."
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