INTIMATE MEMORIES: Backgrounds

by Mabel Dodge Luhan ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 16, 1933

The controversy aroused by LORENZO IN TAOS, along with satisfactory sales figures, would seem to guarantee a market for this first volume of Mabel Dodge Luhan's autobiography. Possibly the appeal will be largely a rather morbid curiosity, a seeking for the psychological roots of her strangely erotic career. However, a reading of the book forces one to accept it as a remarkable human document, appealing to the type of readers that particularly enjoyed YEARS OF GRACE and THE PERENNIAL BACHELOR. For Mrs. Luhan has a knack of recreating the past, while she tells the story of her own childhood and girlhood in the fashionable circle of Buffalo, New York, Lenox and Newport, 40 years ago. In spite of the intensely personal character of the narrative, there is an amazing objectivity in the way the woman today looks back on her own formative years. Good reading, of interest more to women than to men. The publishers consider this their high water mark of non-fiction this Spring, and are preparing a circular for imprinting.

Pub Date: March 16, 1933

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1933

Categories: NONFICTION