The controversy aroused by LORENZO IN TAOS, along with satisfactory
sales figures, would seem to guarantee a market for this first
volume of Mabel Dodge Luhan's autobiography. Possibly the appeal
will be largely a rather morbid curiosity, a seeking for the
psychological roots of her strangely erotic career. However, a
reading of the book forces one to accept it as a remarkable human
document, appealing to the type of readers that particularly
enjoyed YEARS OF GRACE and THE PERENNIAL BACHELOR. For Mrs. Luhan
has a knack of recreating the past, while she tells the story of
her own childhood and girlhood in the fashionable circle of
Buffalo, New York, Lenox and Newport, 40 years ago. In spite of the
intensely personal character of the narrative, there is an amazing
objectivity in the way the woman today looks back on her own
formative years. Good reading, of interest more to women than to
men. The publishers consider this their high water mark of
non-fiction this Spring, and are preparing a circular for
imprinting. (Kirkus Reviews)
Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly
edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly
social structure" under which the United States had been buried
since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the
upper classes to lead a life of notoriety among Europe and
America's leading artists, writers, and social visionaries--among
them D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and John Reed.
Intimate Memories details Luhan's assemblage of a series of
utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age and
shows Luhan not just as a visionary hostess but as a talented and
important writer.
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