The ending may or may not convince you, but that is perhaps immaterial: Little Deaths is a strong and confident addition to the growing trend of domestic dystopias – novels about flawed, angry, hurt women navigating hostile social and intimate milieus that turn viciously punitive when those women rebel.
For Drake, Bascher personified the "gilt-edged decadence" that defined his intimates' milieu.
"Ghosts" starts off in a familiar milieu.
Ms. Carr was a columnist and arts reporter for The Village Voice from 1984 to 2003, and she is intimate with Wojnarowicz's milieu.
And he has done legwork, interviewing a gaggle of people intimate with postwar comedy and its milieu, from key agents like Charles Joffe and Jack Rollins to fans like Roger Ailes, a Sahl devotee, and Robin Williams, who grew up idolizing Bruce and Winters.
On paper, it has historic sweep and heroic milieu, but it is neither intimate nor epic.
In his portraits, he revealed an intimate knowledge of his New England subjects and milieu and conveyed a powerful sense of physical entity and directness.
In other words, what were the intimate motivations and repercussions of this political movement and social milieu?
Ranging across wide emotional territory without missing a beat, it brings alive a milieu that feels both intriguingly remote and utterly intimate, exotic in the eccentric syntax and unruly lyricism of its earthy dialogue — God bless the Irish!
Lord, who died in 2009 at the age of 86, was an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti, and his biographies and memoirs captured the artistic milieu of postwar Montparnasse.
