“To me ‘in vino veritas’ was the very opposite of what happened: ‘In vino’ brought out the nasty side it was without the vino that Andrew was himself.”Īnd unlike Nancy, she can reveal a fond heart, manifest in everything she writes about a husband whom she loved for more than 60 years, truly a portrait of a marriage warts and all but with admirable wisdom, restraint and loyalty.īut in “Wait for Me,” loyalty can lead us into very choppy waters indeed. Here she can indeed write with a wit worthy of her oldest sister: And she speaks with surprising frankness of her husband’s alcoholism and the desperate steps she took to induce him to embrace the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, leading to his sobriety in the final decades of his life. Likes and dislikes of people, many of them famous, are crisply expressed, as are her generally conservative, sometimes libertarian, social and political views.
Scores with sister Jessica are briskly settled, her memoirs skillfully and authoritatively rebuked, even debunked - despite her obvious affection for the sister closest to her in age. Which is all the odder because amid all this bland custard, there are shards of acute observation and even of personal revelation that are all the more remarkable because they poke out in such sharp contrast.
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