![]() ![]() ![]() Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life. Boxes and boxes of letters flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother-and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. ![]() Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Zelda was an instant touchstone forcreatively inspired readers after its initial publication in 1983 Patti Smithhails it in her autobiography, Just Kids,recalling how reading the story of Zelda Fitzgerald by Nancy Milford, Iidentified with her mutinous spirit. Milford calls her book a family romance-for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. ![]()
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