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Mary Olivier: A Life

Mary Olivier: A Life

Sinclair, May
Pollitt, Katha

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0940322862
ISBN13: 9780940322868
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 30 2002
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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