Vanishing

The fourth of Candida Lawrence's stand-alone<BR>memoirs the collection of pieces that is Vanishing<BR>reveals a life-long awareness of human fragility and<BR>the constant proximity of alienation and separation.<BR>A survivor in the truest sense and a woman with<BR>the greatest personal resilience Candida Lawrence<BR>recalls what it is to make each day an assertion of<BR> Her deeply felt remembrances<BR>always grant us an honest account of what it is<BR>to live in this unstable And the pieces that<BR>make up Vanishing are no exception.<BR>Vanishing opens with Lawrence's childhood distrust<BR>of men's use of words and an assertion that she<BR>will ever write only By the second piece in<BR>this volume it comes clear that there is no subject<BR>she will not address with an eloquent understated<BR>honesty that reveals her heart and her mind and<BR>her constant resistance to By the end<BR>of this volume what comes clearest is her sense<BR>that modernity has separated us from the most real<BR>emotions and the most sensible attachments.<BR>As always Lawrence's writing is filled with smart <BR>gentle anger sweet sadness and the most private<BR>sense of what is vital and important.<BR>To read this memoir is not only to know a remarkable<BR>woman; reading all of Lawrence is to see the world<BR>through eyes that are unblinking over sixty five<BR>