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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay
Author: Nancy Milford
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. — If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394575896
ISBN-10: 039457589X
Publication Date: 9/4/2001
Pages: 576
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4.2 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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reviewed Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay on + 39 more book reviews
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Perfectly outstanding...Milford's biography takes the whole of Millay's heaving ,grieving,estactic life into account in a way that is almostloving, always respectful, even when blunt truth and candor are necessary
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Poets were the "rock stars" of Vincent Millay's era- and she was the Elvis, The Beatles, the Janis Joplin of her time. This is an extremely well written and well researched biography. It is the best biography (tied with "Seabiscuit")I have ever read as well as one of the best books of any genre I have ever read.

No, I will not post my copy. I want it to be right here when I'm moved to read it again.
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Wow! Not sure who she was (won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry); but she had a really interesting life! When I think of the wild 20's I think of someone like her. From humble beginnings to wide acclaim she pretty much did it all.

I especially liked the interesting thoughts of an American Jew traveling in Germany pre-Second World War. Her "Nobody Can Touch Me" attitude got a rude awakening.
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Readnmachine avatar reviewed Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay on + 1435 more book reviews
Detailed biography of the poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, who emerges as a brilliant but willful and often self-centered child. The portrait of her last years, ravaged by alcoholism and morphine abuse, is nevertheless heartbreaking.


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