Surviving All Odds: Dory Previn
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 16 December 1972
WHEN DORY Previn wrote: "I no longer plead with heaven or go rummaging in books for the answers to the questions life contains", she had come out of the darkness that surrounds us all to one extent or another into a kind of knowledge hard rent from her own life.
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