Isak Dinesen : the life of Karen Blixen

"Her childhood was coloured by her father's unexplained suicide, her marriage was to Baron Bror von Blixen-not his twin, Hans, who she loved. Their years on the Kanyan coffee-farm, remembered in "Out of Africa", ended in bankruptcy, divorce and her return to Denmark, wasted by syphilis. This remarkable biography paints Karen Blixen in all her sybiline beauty and magnetism, conveying the intense delight and terror she inspired, and the pain she suffered. Above all, it reveals how, through the alchemy of her imagination, Karen Blixen created Isak Dinesen and, in doing so, recreated herself."--CoverSee more