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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I first heard of Evelyn Scott through a newspaper article many years ago. I discovered the clipped article recently and sought out her novel Escapade on Amazon. It is a breathtaking, poetic, melodramatic memoir of one woman's miserable journey through South America with her older, rather cruel it seemed to me, boyfriend. Once you read this book you cannot forget its images and colors. But I feel I have to warn you - the last chapter does not fit in with the tone, or even the story of the rest of the book. Why it was added I can't imagine. Just ignore it if possible and focus on the South American part. no reviews | add a review
In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn- later to be known as Evelyn Scott- turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Evelyn Scott with the raw material for a singular work of fictionalized autobiography. That work, published in 1923 amid expressions of mingled outrage and admiration from the critical establishment, was Escapade.This new edition is enhanced by a thoughtful and appreciative critical afterword by Dorothy M. Scura that illuminates both the structure of the book and the beauty of its language while placing Scott within the continuum of feminist writers. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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