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“Nili Sharf Gold’s book is important because it contains a report on the life of the poet and his writing until 1948. The report is supported by the author's visits to Wurzburg, Germany, Amichai’s childhood town, and is based on the author's interviews with Amichai's friends and contemporaries, on letters that Amichai wrote during the months between September 1947 and April 1948 to Ruth Z., a lover who moved to the U.S. and there married someone else, and on documents from Amichai’s literary estate in the Beinecke Library at Yale University.” —Shofar University Press of New England “What looked to be a cut-and-dried murder case, complete with heroic third party exacting immediate justice on a cop killer, proved to be far more complex. Sherman, a veteran Massachusetts investigative reporter and author of ‘The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler,’ labors hard to uncover the back story of the principal players and provide a riveting yet neutral account of the sensational slayings. In the end, it is for readers to decide how they would have acted in the place of the four men at the center of ‘Bad Blood.’” |
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ay places portraiture within broader cultural currents, such as fashion and consumption, the rise of celebrity culture, personal collections and house museums, and travel literature. Synthesizing a vast array of material and tying together diverse artistic, literary, and cultural modes, she sheds new light on the historical significance of portraits and the centrality of Romantic portraiture as a vehicle for expression and subjective exploration.
