KATHERINE MANSFIELD A Secret Life<i> by Claire Tomalin (Alfred A. Knopf: $22.95; 292 pp.) </i>
Claire Tomalin forges a coolly balanced biography from Mansfield’s exquisitely neurotic mixture of melodramatic posing, reckless ambition and sheer bloody malice.
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