lying, self-deception and empty heroics which was to set the tone for the cultura! Sita Virago E1.95 heart. If you're an emotional masochist, this is your kind of book. Kate Millett, author of the pioneering Sexuel Politics, charts the slow disintegration ol her affair with Sita, a woman ten years her senior. The end of this relationship, following hard upon a nervous breakdown and desertion by her husband, must have been a deeply painful process for Millett. But somchow it's hard to maintain sisterly sympathy author who is so conscious while she is living a moment that it will later be immortalised in print.
Millett kept a detailed diary throughout the period covered in Sira, and she hasn't weeded it out, treating us to an odd mixture of profound anguish and trivial detail. Much of the action takes place at meals (cue for description of restaurant): crises always seem to coincide with the cooking of chicken. Buried in those 300-odd pages are some insights about love between women, ageing, writing and other relevant themes, but they are rarely illuminated and never synthesised. Uncomfortably close to self-indulgence, like picking old scabs off the KAREN MARGOLIS ers of 000ks an appreciate wha Marie.
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