Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865475628 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Cautionary Tale of Never Growing Up" according to GEM. I, too, was greatly impressed by MFK Fisher's books - they had everything -- an appreciation of food, wine, travel, writing, husbands, lovers, children and always money. Yet, my appreciation of these tales, I think, reveal a retarded adolescence on my part.Rea. "Not Always Pretty" according to Kevin Killian. I enjoyed Joan Reardon's intimate biography of the food writer MFK Fisher quite a lot but the pleasures of reading it deepened into dispiriting reflections on how intrusive biography can be. Taking its title from an inane description of Fisher;s writing by Joh. difficult job well done It's hard to compete in a book that tries to tell the story of someone who is best known for writing about herself. Reardon does a great job of making the reader feel along for the ride which was seldom without fellow travelers anyway. You soon learn that Fish
Whether considering the oyster or describing how to cook a wolf, she addressed the universal needs "for protection, food, love." Readers were instantly drawn into her circle of husbands and lovers, artists and artisans; they felt they knew Fisher herself, whether they encountered her as a child with a fried-egg sandwich in her pocket, a young bride awakening to the glories of French food, or a seductress proffering the first peas of the season. To retell her story as it really happened is an important enterprise, and Joan Reardon has made the most of her access to Fisher, her family and friends, and her private papers. Fisher forever changed the way Americans understood not only the art of eating but the art of living. Oldest child, wife, mother, mistress, self-made career woman, trail-blazing writer--Fisher served up each role with panache. Her portraits and scenarios were often unrecognizable to those on whom they were based, and her own emotions and experiences remained cloaked in ambiguity. In more than thirty books, M.F.K. This multifaceted portrayal of the woman John Updike christened the "poet of the appetites" is no less memorable than the personae Fisher crafted for herself.. But like many master stylists, she was also a master mythologizer
Scholars may find this volume useful, but devotees of Fisher's writing will find that one big question still remains: how did a woman with such straightlaced roots become one of the world's most delightfully irreverent bon vivantes? Photos. On rare occasions when Reardon's opinion surfaces, it's usually negative: she disapproves of Fisher's child-rearing skills, of Fisher's affair with an older woman, of Fisher's open-door availability in the years before she died in 1992. All rights reserved. . That she eventually abandoned her husband for her friend's husband, began writing about the art of eating and went on to beco