The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

by Priscilla Gilman
The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

by Priscilla Gilman

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Overview

A Washington Post Best Book of 2023 • A New York Times Book Critics' Favorite of 2023 • One of the Eighteen Books Lilith Loved in 2023 • A top book of 2023 for Bookreporter's Harvey Freedenberg • One of The Book Maven and LA Times Book Critic Bethanne Patrick's Ten Best NonFiction Books of 2023

An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity.

Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial father, the writer, theater critic, and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. But when Priscilla was ten years old, her mother, renowned literary agent Lynn Nesbit, abruptly announced that she was ending the marriage. The resulting cascade of disturbing revelations—about her parents’ hollow marriage, her father’s double life and tortured sexual identity—fundamentally changed Priscilla’s perception of her father, as she attempted to protect him from the depression that had long shadowed him.

A wrenching story about what it means to be the daughter of a demanding parent, a revelatory window into the impact of divorce, and a searching reflection on the nature of art and criticism, The Critic’s Daughter is an unflinching account of loss and grief—and a radiant testament of forgiveness and love.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393651324
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 02/07/2023
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 281,387
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Priscilla Gilman is the author of the memoir The Anti-Romantic Child and a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
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