A review by carolanncdematos
All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen

2.0

‘All We Know’ is a book about three women who all lived and loved in the 1920s/30s. All three women crossed paths – running across each other at cocktail parties, or at Parisian salons, or through the sharing of a lover as all three explored both male and female sexual relationships. But mainly, all three women have one characteristic in common – or at least according to author Lisa Cohen – that each lady in question did not live up to their ‘potential’.

‘It is a cliche of American life that we like our brilliance to flair up and die young, we like it to crash and burn.’

Esther Murphy was the first lady explored in this book. She was also the inspiration for the book’s title, as she tended to start her conversations with ‘All we know…’ READ MORE

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