The Collected Prose
by Elizabeth Bishop
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Author: Elizabeth BishopEditor: Robert Giroux
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-11-01
ISBN: 0374518556
Number of pages: 278
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: A delicate collection.
Summary: 4 Stars
I hope that I will be forgiven for saying that as much as I enjoyed this volume of Bishop's prose, I still don't find it as robust as her poetry. While lovely, some of these entries were so slight I was afraid to breathe and break them.
The book is divided into two halves-- a series of memories and a series of stories. I liked the memories section the best: particularly "The Country Mouse" and her memoir of Marianne Moore. Of the stories, I liked "Gwendolyn" the best-- a story about a dying little girl (which is not nearly as saccharine as it sounds from that description.)
I enjoyed this book, I *think* I enjoyed it in its own right. But if I'm honest, I'm not sure how I would have felt about it had I not already loved Bishop's poems so much.
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