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Favorite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCounterpoint Press

ISBN-101582431582

ISBN-139781582431581

eBay Product ID (ePID)1906449

Product Key Features

Book TitleFavorite of the Gods

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSagas, General, Historical

Publication Year2001

GenreFiction

AuthorSybille Bedford

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-035245

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisHenry James's theme of the New World (naïve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming favourite of the gods. But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? This, writes Bedford, is not a poor little rich girl's plaint. It is the quest that lurks within every human creature fortunate to lift its head above the daily grind.Bedford's genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature.-Peter Levi., One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to England. An odd incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives.

LC Classification NumberPR6052.E3112F38 2001