Reviews

After Egypt by Millicent Dillon

jules_cr's review

medium-paced

2.75

The Egyptian connection and using Mary Cassatt and Isadora Duncan was a little too tenuous for me. Overall, It was one of the better written biographies I've read.

assimbya's review

4.0

The concept of this book - a dual biography of Mary Cassat and Isadora Duncan, two women who never met - is one that could have failed terribly, but the unique perspective on biography offerred by Millicent Dillon ended up working wonderfully, creating a dreamlike universe through which anecdotes from the two women's lives showed through, murky, indistinct and fascinating. Brillantly drawn together, the fault of this book lay in the occasional lack of actual biographical detail, less of a fault to me, as someone who knows the facts of Isadora Duncan's life very well, but potentially more problematic for someone reading this book without prior knowledge.