Karen blixen biography amazon
Karen blixen biography amazon
Karen blixen out of africa.
"Donelson's diligently researched and thoughtfully written account brings a complex personality to life." -- Kenya Rough Guide, Sixth Edition
"Donelson, a physician, concludes that the illness that crippled and ultimately killed her was not syphilis but arsenic poisoning..." -- Library Journal, March, 1995
"Out of Isak Dinesen" is an important new biography and the first to present Karen Blixen to a broad general audience...an impressive and intimate biography that has both broken new ground and corrected previous errors concerning the life and work of a major literary figure -- Midwest Book Review, August 1998
"well-researched...absorbing...a sympathetic yet candid portrait of Blixen and her complex relationships with her husband and lover..." -- Publishers Weekly, April 10, 1995
Donelson has committed herself to separating the facts of Blixen's life from her self-created myth.
The result is a book that traces the transformation of an unassuming young grand dame of the veldt (Bl