58 is young; but she was tired, sick, hurt and disappointed and
whenever I read about her I wondered how on earth she was going to
survive the next ten years.
Good that the article notes the black wit - gallows humour, through
and through. I read recently that Douglas Adams had called humour -
his sort, in any case - a "gift for the intelligent". Dworkin needed
smarter readers than she got (and possibly better editors, too). But
then John Berger as an admirer ain't bad.
Will Self, who interviewed Dworkin a few years ago, reported being
greatly impressed by _Ice and Fire_, which is the one book of hers I
would keep if there was only one that I could. The rest are uneven,
sometimes startlingly wayward, but all animated by the same white-hot
coupling of intelligence and rage.
Dominic
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