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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.
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
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