Family Memories (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca West
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Parents and children, Power, personal or social, Abused persons, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, Domestic violence, Fathers, Adultery, Scotland or Scottish people
- Locales: Scotland
Toward the end of her long and prolific career, Rebecca West told an interviewer that she had somehow lost “the finishing power,” but any reader familiar with her other works can easily conclude that the unfinished form of FAMILY MEMORIES results from more than advancing age and declining powers. Throughout her writing life, West displayed a disregard for form, for convention, and this disregard, coupled with the distrust of autobiography on display in her 1933 book on Saint Augustine, almost predestined a work such as FAMILY MEMORIES to the protean shapes it assumed in the course...
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