Books
Book review: Thinking outside the box is low on reward for this New York dolls tale
Tale of porcelain and plastic dolls in a mishmash of narrators and writing styles, by the poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, is arguably a little too clever for its own good
When Huguette Clark passed away in May 2011 at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, she was two weeks shy of her 105th birthday. But that wasn’t even close to the most extraordinary thing about Clark’s life.
The painter, philanthropist, heiress and youngest child of Montana senator and industrialist William A Clark was a recluse for much of her life, the last two decades of which were spent in hospital.
Upon her ...
