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Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals
"Impressive. . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily…
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Truitt’s last journal, published after her death, harvests a sculptor’s long lifetime, paying attention to the experience of living: working, creating, family and friendship, loving and losing, and aging and death.
A renowned sculptor, although increasingly frail as she ages, she never stops creating. Instead, she adjusts the scale of her work, yielding, and accepting the limits of her aging body. As a young woman, she chose to be a sculptor rather than a writer but is a close observer and exquisite describer of everything she encounters, including weather, great art, history, family dynamics, and personalities.
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