The Other Elizabeth Taylor

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thingsthatmakemecry:

Whenever I venture into a seemingly well-stocked bookstore, I judge its worth by its stock of books by W. Somerset Maugham, Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Taylor. Which is why few American indies, never mind Borders or Barnes & Noble, ever measured up to the Kinokuniya stores in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. I’m thrilled to see that NYRB Classics is adding Elizabeth Taylor to their line-up.

If Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek leave you wanting more, you may want to check out Virago Press, who’ve been publishing out-of-print, out-of-fashion women writers since 1978. They have thirteen Elizabeth Taylor titles.

nyrbclassics:

More than one critic has suggested that this name, shared with the century’s most famous movie star, accounts in part for the obscurity suffered by such a consistently delightful writer. If true, it’s the kind of sad irony that would have been appreciated by Taylor, who over the course of 12 novels and dozens of short stories written between 1943 and her death in 1975 returned repeatedly to the subject of women forced to be wives and mothers first and only then, if at all, writers, artists or simply human beings.

— from The New York Times review of the recently released Elizabeth Taylor novels, Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek

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   The NYRB Classics release of these two titles is a great chance for you to get to know the “other” Elizabeth Taylor,...

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