First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classicmemoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John ElderRobison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her ownhaunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession,Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to ahandsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholicand abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two childrenwhile having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle toregain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the fa?ade of 1950spropriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism,misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met herhusband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved upnorth, where John embarked upon a successful academic career andMargaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry.Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, andthe eventual disintegration of their mar
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship withirresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his closefriendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration ofPicasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso'sstudio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of theartist and his work. 800 photos.
