Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood

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Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood - Paperback

Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood - Paperback

by Caroline Blackwood
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Book Overview

Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman whose formidable intellect and artistry indelibly marked every person she met and every sentence she crafted. When he interviewed her a year before her death in 1996, The New York Times chief art critic, Michael Kimmelman, called Blackwood a "strangely dramatic woman: intense and vulnerable, with . . . a dark, razor-sharp sense of humor and an offbeat sensibility."

The same can be said of the mostly female, and often troubled, characters in the stories of this startling new collection. Selections span the entirety of her career, from her first book, For All That I Found There, to Good Night Sweet Ladies, one of her last. The seven evocative nonfiction vignettes draw directly from Blackwood's fascinating life, from her early difficult years through her days as a quintessential bohemian. Three entirely unpublished stories are included in the collection.
ISBN9781582437071
Author Caroline Blackwood
PublisherCounterpoint LLC
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages372
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood - Paperback

By Caroline Blackwood

About Caroline Blackwood

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family and was famous for much of her life largely on account of her flamboyantly bohemian existence, not to mention her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. Taking up writing in middle age, she soon demonstrated that hers was a mind as brilliant and ruthless as any of the men for whom she'd served as "muse," producing reportage, fiction, biography, and even a cookbook.

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