Outside the Magic Circle The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr

“Virginia Durr did not write the autobiography so aptly called Outside the Magic Circle.She spoke it, over the course of two years, in a series of interviews for such invaluable collections as those of the oral history programs at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina. Well edited by Hollinger F. Barnard, so that it is only occasionally repetitive, the book is, one suspects, far more representative of Mrs. Durr's true voice than a written memoir might have been. It is chatty, informal, rich with the sound of laughter and an outrage that often stops at the brink of awe at some of the goings-on she has witnessed in a changing and yet deeply unchanging South. It is a true nonfiction Bildungsroman--a journey from innocence to experience, to disillusion but never cynicism--and it's superb reading.” -New York Times Review of BooksBarnard, Hollinger F. is the author of 'Outside the Magic Circle The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr' with ISBN 9780817305178 and ISBN 0817305173.