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One friend won't eat anything white – presumably no potatoes, cream, baps and peppermints; though it does rather remind one of Davey's barmy diets in Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love – he ate only red things at one meal, white at the next.
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But readers who miss Mitford's colorful eccentrics will be satisfied by Holly Springs's ample supply of quirky characters.
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November 1963, his brother Robert, having read Mitford's book, tailored his funeral choices accordingly.
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Published in 1963, The American Way of Death was not Mitford's first book, but it was the one that brought her fame and the one of which she was most proud.
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That whole expose of the American funeral industry Mitford's book, The American Way of Death was so cool to me because it was so uncompromising and tough, but done in this witty and interesting way.
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Jessica Mitford's curiosity about undertakers was whetted by the funeral trade magazines which opened up for me the bizarre world of the 'average' American funeral, far more curious than the death customs of ancient days or remote tribes.
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Jessica Mitford's curiosity about undertakers was whetted by the funeral trade magazines which opened up for me the bizarre world of the 'average' American funeral, far more curious than the death customs of ancient days or remote tribes.
Mourning in Chicago 2009
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With its lethal wit and lack of sentimentality, The Blessing deserves a place next to Mitford's acknowledged masterpiece, The Pursuit of Love (1945), a fictionalized portrait of her eccentric childhood, and it is just as autobiographical.
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In her major fiction, most of Mitford's most beloved characters can be classified as either innocents or sophisticates.
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The savage quality of the book's satire makes it Mitford's most ruthless grilling of the romantic mindset, though the reader casts about in vain for a sympathetic character outside the Radlett circle.
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