Synopses & Reviews
Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.
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"Engrossing, beautifully written . . . but also touching in its candor about the flawed character of a beloved relation." Boston Globe
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"Haunting and . . . complex . . . part biography, part memoir, of the woman who happened to be [Honor Moore's] grandmother." New York Times Book Review
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"Ambitious and searching . . . as rich in casually telling detail as only an authentic family album could be." The Nation
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"It is a virtue of this autobiographical biography that it succeeds in evoking the unfathomable nature of a personality." New York Review of Books
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"A striking portrait of a woman artist's struggle for life." --Arthur Miller
About the Author
Honor Mooreis a poet and the author of The Bishop"s Daughter. She lives in New York City and teaches at the New School and Columbia University.