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...Mary de Rachewiltz limits what she tells in Discretions to the events in which she herself was a participant...
...good autobiographers should, de Rachewiltz points out early in her book that several realities are "playing in counterpoint." It's this acceptance of counterpoint that makes Discretions a valuable work of literature as well as of memory: the acceptance that the different realities of different stages of maturity can play in the same story consecutively or all at once, in harmony or in discord. The counterpoint plays clearly as the teenaged, peasant-raised girl describes an uncomfortable visit with her father's friend, T.S. Eliot, as she is waiting for her father's release from America. "The room...
DISCRETIONS by Mary de Rachewiltz. 312 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
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