Between Me and Life

A Biography of Romaine Brooks

Plot

The book is fascinating for many reasons. American‐born Romaine Goddard Brooks, who died in 1970 at the age of 96, endured a nightmare childhood which would have stunted and distorted anyone else. The artist developed in spite of it. Even if, in her own words, this childhood stood “between her and life"—like an invisible fog, cooling the temperature of her loves or preventing the fullest expansion of her genius, even interfering with the life impulse — nevertheless, compared to the stunted lives of many modern artists today, she was involved in a rich, colorful pattern of friendships and loves with many remarkable figures

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