A review by elinor01
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer

2.0

This reads more like a romance novel than a biography and I found it difficult to read at times. I understand that a fictionalized biography takes liberties but this was a bit too much for my liking. A lot of times I asked myself "did that really happen?" and that I don't like when I read about real people. It's one thing to fictionalize them but another making facts up. Just one example: in the end it says she hadn't seen Man Ray in over 40 years since they broke up and then they meet again in the museum. I read they remained friends after they broke up and did see each other lots of times over the years. Why make something like that up?
It was too much sex and not enough information. After reading I still feel I have no idea who Lee Miller was (even less who Man Ray was, but that's okay, the book is about her).