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Joanne O’Leary: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Style, 17 November 2022
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Cathy Curtis.
Norton, 400 pp., £25, January,978 1 324 00552 0 Show More
by Cathy Curtis.
Norton, 400 pp., £25, January,
The Uncollected Essays
by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 304 pp., £15.99, May,978 1 68137 623 3 Show More
by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 304 pp., £15.99, May,
“... is taken to task for ‘the humbly repetitive Pandemonium’ of his novels. She wrote about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal in 1999, casting Bill and Monica in a latter-day Scarlet Letter: ‘She it is who proudly wears the red A on her bosom but it is he who “will not speak”.’ ‘What can you do,’ Hardwick ... ”