The Wind at My Back Volume I: Sand Dunes & Snow Caps
Chalem, Elisa B.
Some of Elisa B. Chalem's most effective results as a sculptor combine elegance of line with great visual imagery and compositional strength. This book-the first of two volumes of her memoirs-does the same in words. the writing is suave, informed, and deeply European in sensibility, it also rests on a solid sense of reality, of observation and assessment, that clarifies other people's lives as well as her own. Her life during the period covere...