The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages
Still, as gossip goes, this is juicy stuff. These are some wild lives, several universes away from anything you might see on TV’sy . Morante has an affair with the film director Luchino Visconti, and he sends her an owl in a cage; Dundy has an affair with the poet George MacBeth, and Tynan comes home to find him in their kitchen wearing nothing but a tie. These couples have their own way of doing things, and it isn’t yours or mine.
There’s a lot of bad behaviour here, and a lot of pain, too: Neal and Dahl lose a daughter; Howard cannot fully recover from the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. But in the end, it’s impossible – and stupid – to take sides, assuming this is what Ciuraru wants us to do . Almost everyone in her book is damaged. Their mental health is poor . They can hardly help themselves most of the time.
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