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Verk av Adam Federman

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Adam Federman has made Patience Gray's relentlessly unconventional life and work in to a remarkably readable narrative in spite of having to repeat the chorus a lot. She is drawn sympathetically though not completely comprehensibly and the pretty certain knowledge that she would brutally snub one doesn't obscure the strong desire to bask in the intense heat of her favor. The book is probably longer than it needs to be and still almost 25% notes at the end. Her life and work are of interest, but after her 60s most of the lessons are repeats and lists with a few new names.… (mer)
 
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quondame | 1 annan recension | Aug 21, 2019 |
What an interesting life, and a piece of food writing history that I wasn't aware of. Gray sounds like a real piece of work, and to Federman's credit he lets you read between the lines when it comes to her persona and never pushes an opinion. In a way that light touch makes this a flatter biography than it could have been, but I like the room for ambiguity around what kind of person she was as reflected by the truly hardcore lifestyle she and her partner adopted in the name of art and authenticity. She writes of "doing so may things a liberated woman should never do," yet her pursuit of her life's work—cooking, gardening/farming, writing about food, jewelry-making—was totally fierce and not in the least feminized. She's a cool character.

The image of figs falling on the breakfast table from the overhead tree ("Those were the best figs I ever had," Harold McGee said) was wonderful. And I'm sorry, I do love the women's names here—Patience, Primrose, Amaryllis, and two copy editors (who worked for the same person at different times) named Candida Brazil and Indonea Muggeridge.
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lisapeet | 1 annan recension | Jan 11, 2018 |

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Verk
1
Medlemmar
66
Popularitet
#259,059
Betyg
4.2
Recensioner
2
ISBN
6

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