Two Lives and a Dream
Marguerite Yourcenar. Farrar Straus Giroux, $20 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-374-52091-5
These three tales of the Renaissance by the first woman elected to the Academie Francaise capture ""the misery and sweetness of existence.'' According to PW, ``the volume takes its place alongside Yourcenar's other penetrating re-creations of life in historic periods.'' (April)
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Reviewed on: 03/01/1988
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 208 pages - 978-0-85628-160-0
Hardcover - 256 pages - 978-0-374-28019-2
Paperback - 246 pages - 978-0-226-96529-1