Vanessa and Her Sister - Rilegato

Parmar, Priya

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ISBN 10: 1408850206 ISBN 13: 9781408850206

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Circus, 2015

Riassunto

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015

London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer.

Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London.

But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own.

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Radiantly original . Irrepressible, with charm and brio to spare, Vanessa and Her Sister boldly invites us to that moment in history when famous minds sparked and collided, shaping the terrain of art and letters . Prepare to be dazzled (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife)

Priya Parmar is a powerful new voice in historical fiction. This novel explores the anguished relationship between the Stephen sisters and provides a new view of the artistic, sensual Bloomsbury world, placing Vanessa Bell at the heart of the story (Philippa Gregory)

Vanessa and Her Sister is the novel I didn't know I was waiting for and it is quite simply, astonishing ... Virginia's story is the one most often told, but it is Vanessa - the painter, observer, the woman struggling to balance her marriage and her art under the near-constant gimlet gaze of a younger sister willing to tip that balance - whose story this is. It is beautiful, wise and deft as a stroke upon the canvas (Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress)

I loved this brilliant depiction of the true price of genius. Vanessa Bell glows at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group as she protects her sister, Virginia, even at the expense of her own happiness. Parmar's novel shines a bright light into the empty spaces between the lines of history (Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand)

Vanessa and her Sister is an account of my grandmother's early life, told with faith, elegance and an almost uncanny insight into the subject. But this is also an absorbing work of fiction - and Priya Parmar has made Vanessa's story her own (Virginia Nicholson, author and granddaughter of Vanessa Bell)

With sparkling wit and insight, Priya Parmar sets us down into the legendary Bloomsbury household of the Stephen siblings, where sisters Vanessa and Virginia vie for love and primacy amidst a collection of eccentric guests . Vanessa and Her Sister kidnapped me for a couple of days. I couldn't put it down (Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky)

A devoted, emotionally intense portrait of the Bloomsbury group (Kirkus)

It is billed as fiction, but one of the many joys of Priyar Parmar's Vanessa and Her Sister is that this brilliant epistolary novel reads as if this is a genuine and revelatory new take on Bloomsbury. The voice of Vanessa Bell rings true (Ion Trewin, Literary Director, Booker Prize Foundation)

Inventive, meticulously researched . The anchor and soul of the book is Vanessa's diary . The Bloomsbury Group were famous for their weekly salons, which were fuelled by intellectual discourse, banter and booze; in Parmar's story, you can almost hear the glasses tinkling (Good Housekeeping (US))

In her gossipy, entertaining historical novel about the British bohemians, Priya Parma conjures a devastating fictional portrait of one of those triangles . Based in fact but written with imaginative panache (USA Today)

Descrizione del libro:

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2015

In the vein of The Paris Wife and the BBC's Life in Squares: a compelling and dazzling story of sisters and art, love and betrayal - of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Circus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1408850206
• ISBN 13: 9781408850206
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368