At the same time, a full and blessed but often difficult life seems to have conferred a fineness of insight on her writing: delicately she traces the importance of Jane Austen's one proper brush with sexual vulnerability, or the trials of women moving, in The Invisible Woman, through "a morally uncertain world of purely private dangers".
A new strain of flu wipes out 99% of humanity in this delicately written dystopia.
Us chaps were enthusiastic about this book because it is quiet, unpretentious and delicately written.
That said, this is a delicately written, profound study of the female condition in the rich world and the poor.
"Electric Shepherd is a work that nobody else could have written," wrote Andrew O'Hagan, delicately, in the Sunday Telegraph; O'Hagan is a contributing editor for the LRB.
No living poet has written verse more delicately rendered or distinguished than Walcott, though few individual poems seem destined to be remembered.
In this way, Erpenbeck's delicately written and boldly imagined fiction (flawlessly translated by Susan Bernofsky) uses the vagaries of a single life to explore larger themes of contingency, accident, and personality as they work through history itself.
But the emotions here are never second hand, and the final segment - exquisitely performed by Annis and Lindsay - is as compassionate, luminous and delicately written an examination of the difficulty of acknowledging and embracing love as you are ever likely to see.
But they'll miss the point of this oddly organised (though not as random as it seems), delicately written, heart-tugging memoir of New York's Greenwich Village when it nearly was a village, and seemed the most exciting place on earth in which to be young.
As for me, this past summer, a decade after coming out, I got my first tattoo: the word "femme" delicately written in ink on my arm.
The ancient and delicately written scriptures 'the Gangyur of Tripitaka' also spelt 'Kangyur' (dated 1410) in 105 volumes (original 108 volumes) written in Tibetan is the treasured possession of the monastery.
