Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood

Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman whose formidable intellect and artistry indelibly marked every person she met and every sentence she crafted. When he interviewed her a year before her death in 1996, The New York Times chief art critic, Michael Kimmelman, called Blackwood a "strangely dramatic woman: intense and vulnerable, with . . . a dark, razor-sharp sense of humor and an offbeat sensibility."

The same can be said of the mostly female, and often troubled, characters in the stories of this startling new collection. Selections span the entirety of her career, from her first book, For All That I Found There, to Good Night Sweet Ladies, one of her last. The seven evocative nonfiction vignettes draw directly from Blackwood's fascinating life, from her early difficult years through her days as a quintessential bohemian. Three entirely unpublished stories are included in the collection.

Author: Caroline Blackwood
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 02/01/2011
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781582437071
ISBN10: 1582437076
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author
Caroline Blackwood was a London-born writer and journalist. She was the author of several novels, including Great Granny Webster, which was nominated for the Booker Prize. She died in 1996.