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Sybille Bedford: A Life - hardcover, Selina Hastings, 1101947918
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- ISBN
- 9781101947913
- Book Title
- Sybille Bedford : Alife
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Women, Women Authors, Lgbt, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 27.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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The first biography of the universally acclaimed British writer, Sybille Bedford, by the celebrated author of books about Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. Passionate, liberated, fiercely independent, Sybille Bedford was a writer and a journalist, the author of ten books, including a biography of Aldous Huxley, and four novels, all of which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Born in Berlin, she grew up in Baden, first with her distant, aristocratic father, and then in France with her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother and her lover. She was a child with a German Jewish background who survived two world wars and went on to spend her adult life in exile in France, Italy, New York, and Los Angeles, before finally settling in England. Bedford was ahead of her time in many ways, with great enthusiasm for life and all its sensual pleasures, including friendships with bold faced names in the worlds of literature and food as well as a literary network of high-powered lesbians. Aldous Huxley became a mentor, and Martha Gellhorn encouraged her to write her first novel, A Legacy ; in 1989, her novel Jigsaw was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In the 1960s, she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials, including those of Auschwitz officials accused of Nazi war crimes and Jack Ruby, on trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Brenda Wineapple has called Bedford one of the finest stylists of the 20th century, bar none. In this major biography, Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, and compassion of the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101947918
ISBN-13
9781101947913
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050089973
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sybille Bedford : Alife
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Lgbt, Literary
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6052.E3112z68 2020
Reviews
"This is such a fantastic read . . . Hastings's delicious biography, with its abundance of intricate and intimate detail, is total heaven. It helps that her subject wrote novels [...] that were thinly disguised autobiographies, and that the material is so very rich . . . [This biography] brings a fundamentally shy and private woman out into the light and is populated by the sorts of people who don't seem to exist anymore -- madly clever, slightly louche, culturally omnivorous, sexually fluid, crisscrossing Europe and each other in search of fun and new ideas." --India Knight, The Sunday Times "Reading Selina Hastings's rigorous biography, the first full life of this extraordinary, somewhat neglected writer, one almost wonders how she got any writing done at all . . . Hastings is impeccable on the facts of Bedford's life - almost every meal and certainly every trip and romantic fling is exhaustively detailed - yet she refrains from passing much comment on Bedford's character, instead letting Bedford's personal writings, and the not always admiring correspondence from her many friends, paint a picture of a much loved, self-centered, convivial bon vivant." --Claire Allfree, The Evening Standard "Hastings reveals the ways in which Bedford found her voice as a writer . . . Hastings has had the cooperation of the Bedford estate and full access to diaries and letters, and she and her researcher have delved heroically and judiciously. She is an accomplished stylist and her prose suits her subject: elegant, deft and restrained, as operatic arias 'hiss' from the horned gramophone in the schloss . . . My favorite Bedford book is A Visit to Don Otavio (1953) . . . Both this and A Legacy will stand the brutal test of time -- as will Selina Hastings's biography." --Sara Wheeler, The Spectator
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Trade
Lccn
2020-019903
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Dewey Edition
23
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