[eBook] [PDF] For The Critic’s Daughter 1st Edition By Priscilla Gilman
A Washington Post Best Book of 2023 • A New York Times Book Critics’ Favorite of 2023 • One of the Eighteen Books Lilith Loved in 2023 • A top book of 2023 for Bookreporter’s Harvey Freedenberg • One of The Book Maven and LA Times Book Critic Bethanne Patrick’s Ten Best NonFiction Books of 2023
An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity.
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial father, the writer, theater critic, and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. But when Priscilla was ten years old, her mother, renowned literary agent Lynn Nesbit, abruptly announced that she was ending the marriage. The resulting cascade of disturbing revelations―about her parents’ hollow marriage, her father’s double life and tortured sexual identity―fundamentally changed Priscilla’s perception of her father, as she attempted to protect him from the depression that had long shadowed him.
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