Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women's Way with Love and Death...
Women have always been masters at devastating domestic retort in art as well as life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone wrong (or right) often seems to breed. It is hardly surprising, in this age when violence seems so fashionable, to find a handful of female writers, some celebrated, some not, skillfully spinning tales of love and death...
...with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
...usual blend of native wit and updated Colette. The characters and setting are American, but Dorothy Seymour, Hollywood scriptwriter, may as well be one of Sagan's Parisian cocottes: she wears St. Laurent copies, vacations on the Riviera, suffers liver attacks and has a quintessentially Gallic attitude toward love. Her latest suitor, Paul Brett, is another familiar Sagan figure, the older protector, handsome, successful, slightly triste-well he may be, putting up, as he does, with the fickle, indiscreet heroine...
...Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy. He might have seen Miller's desire to record all of the American spirit as an impossible gesture, leading always, as it did for Miller, to great and bitter loneliness. Again it might have been that he recognized...