This was a most amazing and surprising little book that William recently found it at our library sale. It starts out talking about an old couple and ends up, well you'll just have to read it. I don't want to spoil the surprise.
The premise of the book is a quote at the beginning by John Ruskin, from "Sesame and Lilies", "The ennobling difference between one man an another - between one animal and another - is precisely in this, that one feels more than the other".
This book is published by Graywolf Press and when I looked in the back, I saw that it had been designed by an old friend of William's, Tree Swenson, from Port Townsend.
It's a small world.
This book was published in 2003 but it was written by Rebecca West in the 60's. This is a wonderfully insight visit to Mexico.
It is a moving travel, memoir and history book all in one. She is a very intelligent and well read woman and her vision is astute as she turns her eye to the history of Mexico.
She has a chapter on Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Chapters on Leon Trotsky, Race Relations, Chapultepec, Aztec Society, Mines and Minerals, Dona Marina and Religion and Sorcery, plus several more.
Susan, this is a book you must read, being very intelligent yourself, and you will understand more of it than I.
She makes very interesting connections and has a keen eye. This book will definitely make you think.
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I read this book several years ago and enjoyed it also. In fact, I think I have a copy at the beach.
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