Mary Olivier - A Life (Paperback)

Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, "Mary Olivier: A Life" is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of freedom and responsibility with empathy and power. May Sinclair's finest novel stands comparison with the work of Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, and the young Virginia Woolf.
As a child, Mary Olivier's dreamy disposition and fierce intelligence set her apart from her Victorian family, especially her mother, "Little Mamma," whose dazzling looks cannot hide her meager love for her only daughter. Mary grows up in a world of her own, a solitude that leaves her free to explore her deepest passions, for literature and philosophy, for the austere beauties of England's north country, even as she continues to attend to her family. But in time the independence Mary values--at almost any cost--threatens to become a form of captivity itself.

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	June 2002
Authors:	May Sinclair
Introduction by:	Katha Pollitt
Dimensions:	202 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	464
ISBN-13:	978-0-940322-86-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-940322-86-2
Barcode:	9780940322868

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