- Title: Savage Beauty
- Author: Nancy Milford
- Genre/Subject: Biography
- Publisher: Random House
- Number of pages: 512
- Publication Date: 2001
- Finish date: 12/6/2019
Review:
It took the author 30 years to write this. It’s less biography and more muckraking and airing of dirty laundry.
It’s disappointing. All the bad, dirty details from personal letters inserted for no good reason. Like, I get you want to show the grit, the bad with the good, like Boswell avowedly did. But this kind of insensitive treatment, not cool.
Milford is one of those literary darlings of the New York set, and but this was long, biased, and sucked the enjoyment out for me.
Got my reps in.
Overall rating: 
How I discovered or acquired this book: Sought it out
Noteworthy experiences while reading this book:
Check out author’s other books?
Recommend this book? To whom?
Ratings (1-10, 10 being exceptional):
- Quality of writing – 4
- Pace – 4
- Plot development – n/a
- Characters – n/a
- Enjoyability – 3
- Insightfulness – 3
- Ease of reading – 8
- Photos/illustrations – 8
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