<strong>Vanishing</strong> opens with Lawrences childhood distrust of mens use of words and anassertion that she will ever write only truth. By the second piece... » 

Vanishing opens with Lawrences childhood distrust of mens use of words and anassertion that she will ever write only truth. By the second piece in thisvolume it comes clear that there is no subject she will not address with aneloquent understated honestly that reveals her heart and her mind and herconstant resistance to expectation. By the end of this volume what comesclearest is her sense that modernity has separated us from the most realemotions and the most sensible attachments. She recalls what it is to make eachday an assertion of independence. As always Lawrences writing is filled withsmart gentle anger sweet sadness and the most private sense of what is vitaland important. «