Really conveys a sense of Mrs Parker's times and life - it's only a sense, of course, one person's and partial and inevitably coloured and all that jazz, but for all of that, it feels right and true, glittering and sharp-edged, fuzzy-edge, sepia and rose-hued and sad. Paints a picture of her as contradictory and partly but intensely and unbearably self-conscious - reading this book, I felt as if I knew her, and yet the very point is, of course, no one ever did.
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