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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- De: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrado por: Alison Fraser
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fierce Poise
- De adnil en 06-16-21
- Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- De: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrado por: Alison Fraser
Awful narration
Revisado: 04-10-21
Enjoyed the content, though often felt the need to clarify the somewhat abstractly poetical accounts of the paintings wi a google search for images. However, the book was nearly ruined for me by the Audible narration which adopted a drawling, petulant, pretentious voice for Frankenthaler that made me want to slap her upside the head every time she opened her mouth. Seems quite a strange ( and inevitably sexist) editorial decision to intentionally trivialize the main subject of a book by constantly emphasizing how annoying she was. Listening to it required conscious resistance to the parody I was being offered.
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The Mutual Admiration Society
- How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
- De: Mo Moulton
- Narrado por: Lorna Bennett
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but irritating narration
- De EKSparks en 09-11-20
- The Mutual Admiration Society
- How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
- De: Mo Moulton
- Narrado por: Lorna Bennett
Interesting but irritating narration
Revisado: 09-11-20
I enjoyed this glimpse into the wider context of Dorothy Sayers' female friendships; gave me a much fuller sense of her personality and concerns. However, I found the narration continually annoying. The narrator had different voices for each character, but the editing was done so clumsily that there was often a pause and a hitch before a new voice spoke that quite spoiled the rhythm of the prose. Also the voice for Susan was so unnecessarily masculinized it seemed like it was stoking parodies of "butch" lesbians which I found rather offensive, verging on homophobic.
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