Assassin's Cloak An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

"An enormous amount of research clearly went into this anthology--the odd title derives from an observation made by the bedridden William Soutar that 'a diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen'--but there's nothing dry-as-dust about it....THE ASSASSIN'S CLOAK is not so much a book as a world....THE ASSASSIN'S CLOAK also, in a curious sense, abolishes time by varying the years registered for each day: So a woman may be breaking up with her lover on Jan. 16, 1954, and falling hard for him a few pages later on Jan. 25--in 1948. Yet this swirling interlacing of then and now, past and present, only adds to this magnificent anthology's appealing truth to life's richness."Taylor, Irene is the author of 'Assassin's Cloak An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists' with ISBN 9781841951720 and ISBN 1841951722.