Judith Thurman
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman
- 1999 LATimes–Biography winner
- 1999 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- 1999 NBCC–Biography finalist
- Score: 22.49
A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman’s Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation.
Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy—a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary…
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Judith Thurman
With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Isak Dinesen’s life—her privileged but unhappy childhood in Denmark, her marriage to Baron Blixen and their immigration to Africa on the eve of World War I, and her passionate affair with Denys Finch Hatton. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Dinesen have been—as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale—“a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other.” Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
