The Pact: My Friendship with Isak Dinesen

Thorkild Bjrnvig. St. Martin's Press, $8.95 (169pp) ISBN 978-0-312-00626-6

This memoir of Dinesen's platonic lover, who, in his 30s, was half her age, shows the storyteller to have been a woman of intense compassion and stern rejection, of great generosity and outrageous selfishness. ""Painfully candid,'' PW stated. (May)

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