"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review of Books Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American fu...
I have read two of Nancy Mitford's novels and perused several biographies of the Mitford sisters but wasn't really motivated to pick up Jessica Mitford's writing until I read that JK Rowling (an author I've never read but whose career interests me on a feminist level) called her her favorite writ...