A Welcoming Life: The M.F.K. Fisher Scrapbook
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1887178325 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 119 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This volume showcases these photos, with extended anecdotal captions taken from her published and unpublished writings. During the last years of her life, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher began reflecting aloud over a large collection of old family photos, envisioning a scrapbook of people, places, and times past. 242 photos.
sensuous, witty and quick in pace at one with the spirit of its subject. As captured here, M.F.K. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Michael Frank. Fisher gives off a physical radiance, kindled by a steady inner light, that intensifies with the passage of time. Excerpts from Fisher's writing set the tone, which is subtly elegiac throughout, as is fitting for an album of people who live in our consciousness simply because they knew, or were related to, or brushed past a human being with a twinned gift for life and language. So skillfully did M.F.K. Fishe
Great fun for M.F.K. Fisher fans (and who isn't a fan?) M.F.K.Fisher was one of America's best prose writers ever. Though known for her writings about food, it's insufficient to say she was a food writer. Her real subject was herself, her journeys through life and relationships, and her ability to render intensely personal experiences in some of the best writ. "A Superb Look at M.F.K. Fisher's Life" according to Millie Samuelson. I checked this book out from the library prior to a book club session focusing on M.F.K. Fisher's works. I had never read anything by or about Mary Frances before, because I thought she was "just" a cooking/culinary writer. Was I ever wrong! What a gorgeous, wonderful, fascinating, philosophical woman an. sharon said Beautiful. I adore MFK Fisher and to see so many candid and unexpected photos of the people I had only read about was a real treat. Many of the photos are over 100 years old and are casual and unposed in a way that most old photographs are not. The pictures from her early days in France made me want to crawl inside