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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Autor Victoria Glendinning
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2018
Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman and mother; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788312431
ISBN-10: 1788312430
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 8 black and white illustrations in an 18-page black and white plates section
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize); Rebecca West; Anthony Trollope (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, Leonard Woolf and a life of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Her novels include The Grown-Ups, Electricity, Flight and The Butcher's Daughter. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1998.

Recenzii

What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude
A biography that conceals nothing... gives her life in fact the strangeness, subtlety, complexity and ambivalence missing from her fiction
Surely the definitive biography.
Superb... much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience
It required both literary skill of the highest order and a rare imaginative compassion to fashion a work of art out of life... superb
Her modest, masterly, well-written treatment of a subject so absorbing in both intimate detail and public ramification is as good as it could be
Again and again, I found myself turning to my battered paperback of Victoria Glendinning's Whitbread prize-winning biography of Sackville-West