Virginia Woolf - Brossura

Lee, Hermione

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375701362 ISBN 13: 9780375701368

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1999

Riassunto

A richly detailed, monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers traces Woolf's life and career, detailing her personal relationships, her chronic illness, and the forces, factors, and ideas that shaped her life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Hermione Lee is a biographer, critic, teacher of literature, and president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Among her many works are literary biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, which won the James Tait Black Prize and the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2014. She is also the author of critical books on Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was made a CBE in 2003 for services to literature, and a DBE in 2013 for services to literary scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

www.hermionelee.com

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stic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. --
Newsday

A New York Times Book Review  Editors' Choice
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."  
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
            
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact.  Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375701362
• ISBN 13: 9780375701368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 944