Volume 51, Number 18 · November 18, 2004
Love in Upper Bohemia
By Gabriele Annan
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves, and Lives of the Garman Sisters
by Cressida Connolly
Ecco, 320 pp., $25.95
The Rare and the Beautiful is a multiple biography whose title is a quote from the reply that one of the Garman sisters—Kathleen—made to a young man who wanted to write her biography. By this time she was Lady Epstein, widow of the American-born sculptor Jacob Epstein, whose huge symbolic figures swoop around various parts of London—by the gate from Knightsbridge into Hyde Park, for instance, and over the entrance of the BBC headquarters: 'It's time you went, now,' Kathleen said to her would-be biographer.
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