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Review title: Writing seems tired
Product review: In the first half the writing is abysmal, but it gets much better in the second half (despite the repetitions). In the second half Thurman glides into the smoother tone used by Francis and Gontier (another biography of Colette), whom she quotes along with myriad other authors whose ideas she uses. There is little fresh or original in this book (unless you count Thurman's opinions, which I find jarring and not always based on sound evidence). As you can tell, I wish I'd got this book at the library.
