Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spiri... read full description
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Apr 12, 2010
Sarah
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After reading this book and other biographies, I'm struck by how little I know about history. In school, history was always men and their wars and the dates of their wars. Reading about Nancy Cunard and other women paint real-life experiences, faces, and personalities onto those events in history. I had no idea about the Spanish civil war, the atrocities that occurred there not only during the war but afterwords. I'm saddened by how our country stood idly behind our policy of non-interferenc
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Apr 02, 2009
Elizabeth
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If Gordon's prose is sometimes workmanlike, the content of this book is extremely thorough and Cunard's story is one worth learning about. Cunard was the first to publish Beckett, had affairs with Pound, Huxley, Aragon, and, lordy, everyone else living at the time whom you can imagine. She was a intrepid reporter during the Spanish Civil War and saved the lives of many Spanish refugees, became lovers with an African American man and was moved to explore African and African American culture whi
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Oct 18, 2007
I heard about this book on KPFA or NPR, and months late, and 2,000 miles later, when I needed distraction in an urgent way I remembered it and ordered it from amazon.... then while waiting for it I got sucked up into Octavia Butler's world and when it came I was distracted again, so I haven't yet started it, but will soon.
Apr 02, 2011
Jen
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This is not a fast read, which is too bad because my reading time is mostly limited to my 15 minute subway commute. It is endlessly fascinating, and (as with most biographies) I really, REALLY wish I could have met this woman. So progressive and interesting. Brave, really.
Jun 05, 2008
lisa_emily
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Enjoyable bio about an unusual woman who lived during unusual times.
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