Isak Dinesen : the life of Karen Blixen / Judith Thurman

By:

Thurman, Judith [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1984Description: 557 pages : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0140067426

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

839.81372

Summary: "Her childhood was coloured by her father's unexplained suicide, her marriage was to Baron Bror von Blixen-not his twin, Hans, who she loved. Their years on the Kanyan coffee-farm, remembered in "Out of Africa", ended in bankruptcy, divorce and her return to Denmark, wasted by syphilis. This remarkable biography paints Karen Blixen in all her sybiline beauty and magnetism, conveying the intense delight and terror she inspired, and the pain she suffered. Above all, it reveals how, through the alchemy of her imagination, Karen Blixen created Isak Dinesen and, in doing so, recreated herself."--Cover

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 839.81372 B649t 1984 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132422d

"Now the subject of out of Africa a major film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [534]-538) and index.

"Her childhood was coloured by her father's unexplained suicide, her marriage was to Baron Bror von Blixen-not his twin, Hans, who she loved. Their years on the Kanyan coffee-farm, remembered in "Out of Africa", ended in bankruptcy, divorce and her return to Denmark, wasted by syphilis. This remarkable biography paints Karen Blixen in all her sybiline beauty and magnetism, conveying the intense delight and terror she inspired, and the pain she suffered. Above all, it reveals how, through the alchemy of her imagination, Karen Blixen created Isak Dinesen and, in doing so, recreated herself."--Cover

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