Isak Dinesen

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR Ekéidé cd a M&^fieüen, "Isak Dinesen led one of the most exotic lives of the 20th century. ... She endowed every aspect of her life and work with high drama, intense fatalism and mythic size, and Judith Thurman's biography does great justice to her grand, sad brilliance." -Newsweek magaziné "The most compelling tale of Isak Dinesen is that of her own life, and we are fortunate that it has been told by Thurman Exceptional." -The Chicago Sun-Times "Judith Thurman has captured all the anguish and the triumph of Dinesen's life." -The Washington Post " [Isak Dinesen] steps forth from these pages with all the force of legend and all the humán detail and frailty of a real person made by real circumstance. This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live It is a fine achievement." -The New York Times Book Review "This biography is as readable as a good növel; indeed, few novelists nowadays would have the imagination or courage to invent so... Tovább

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR Ekéidé cd a M&^fieüen, "Isak Dinesen led one of the most exotic lives of the 20th century. ... She endowed every aspect of her life and work with high drama, intense fatalism and mythic size, and Judith Thurman's biography does great justice to her grand, sad brilliance." -Newsweek magaziné "The most compelling tale of Isak Dinesen is that of her own life, and we are fortunate that it has been told by Thurman Exceptional." -The Chicago Sun-Times "Judith Thurman has captured all the anguish and the triumph of Dinesen's life." -The Washington Post " [Isak Dinesen] steps forth from these pages with all the force of legend and all the humán detail and frailty of a real person made by real circumstance. This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live It is a fine achievement." -The New York Times Book Review "This biography is as readable as a good növel; indeed, few novelists nowadays would have the imagination or courage to invent so fantastic a life and personality as Isak Dinesen's." -The New Criterion "Splendid, inestimably valuable... Thurman's wonderfully written, exhaustively researched Isak Dinesen is a model of its kind. ... Unfolds like a növel " -The Chicago Tribüné Book World "An instructive charm, the biography of the season." -The San Francisco Review of Books "Scrupulous and elegant " -Time magaziné Vissza