Bøger af Mary Meigs

Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a "semi-documentary" National film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this extraordinary narrative, which begins as her story of being in the film and unfolds into a gentle, intricate meditation on the experience of time, old age, magic and binding. Time becomes still and circular as the women's self-images and film images, their past and present, are bound inextricably with the filmmaker's vision. Interwoven with Meigs' reflections on time, aging, and the phenomenon of film, are her portraits of each cast member on and off camera. The eight women are strangers who first become company, then friends.

A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.

An affair born of a correspondence with a distant admirer leads the lovers to an arranged meeting in Australia.

The box closet was a real closet in the attic of the family house in Washington, D.C. in which Mary Meigs grew up. Letters and diaries were found there after her mothers death in 1958, and when Meigs read them she decided that they were the material for a book. The result is a moving portrait of a family.

A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship.

Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe the painter in Woolfs To the Lighthouse Mary Meigs portrays herself, her family, and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. She describes the three major decisions of her life: not to marry, to be an artist, and to listen to her own voices.