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Article: Selected Letters of Rebecca West.(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- May 1, 2000
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Bonnie Kime Scott, editor Selected Letters of Rebecca West. Yale University Press, 544 pages, $35
Readers of The New Criterion will not need an introduction to Rebecca West. Yet even those familiar with her life and work will find startling new material in this superbly edited collection of her correspondence. Although West was always outspoken, her letters reveal a behind-the-scenes candor that provides insight into her reporting on the suffragists, the New Deal, Yugoslavia, the Nuremberg Trials, the Cold War, Communism, and much more. Devotees of her great novels, The Fountain Overflows and The Birds Fall Down, will be granted a new awareness of their ...