![]() ![]() In the early chapters, Milford slips back and forth in time to tell the stories of Edna’s ancestors and to describe a childhood featuring eccentric and impecunious parents (when the Millays’ Maine house flooded one winter, the three sisters ice-skated on the kitchen floor). ![]() Throughout, she quotes passages of her conversations with Norma-dialogue so pregnant and peculiar it could have come from The Aspern Papers. The author’s prologue describes her intricate choreography with Norma Millay, sister of the poet Edna and possessor of the thousands of documents and other materials Milford eventually came to possess. After 30 years, Milford ( Zelda, 1970) returns with another definitive biography of another significant literary figure. ![]()
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