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Art and madness : a memoir of love without reason / Anne Roiphe

By:

Roiphe, Anne Richardson, , 1935-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday , c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 220 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780385531641

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 ROI

LOC classification:

PS3568.O53 Z46 2010

Summary: In this memoir, novelist Roiphe recounts her twenties during the 1950s and 1960s in New York, when she put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote her life to male artists and their work. She socialized and had affairs with literary icons of the day, a circle that included Norman Mailer, Doc Humes, Peter Mathiessen, and William Styron, and married an alcoholic playwright, supporting him and typing his manuscripts. She details an era in which women were muses seduced by male artists and writers and witnessed the drinking, violence, and other ills of their self-destructive sides, as they viewed art as most important.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 ROI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026388

In this memoir, novelist Roiphe recounts her twenties during the 1950s and 1960s in New York, when she put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote her life to male artists and their work. She socialized and had affairs with literary icons of the day, a circle that included Norman Mailer, Doc Humes, Peter Mathiessen, and William Styron, and married an alcoholic playwright, supporting him and typing his manuscripts. She details an era in which women were muses seduced by male artists and writers and witnessed the drinking, violence, and other ills of their self-destructive sides, as they viewed art as most important.

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