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Condition: Very Good Price inked out on back cover. Very slight curving to outer corners. Pages beginning to discolour as common with a book of this age and quality. Binding tight, spine unbroken and apparently unread. Plot / Content: "In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, years to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. "Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Wikipedia biography Reviews: "Having got the minutiae just right, Peter Ackroyd does not fluff the grand cadences . . . Ackroyd plunges into a virtuoso literary exercise and comes up with an absorbing, moving novel." Sunday Times (from the cover) "Not only does Peter Ackroyd exert a masterly command of language and ideas that credibly evokes Wilde's sharp wit in epigram or paradox, but he captures the raw vulnerability of the man isolated behind his mask. . . . Absolutely stunning." Times (from the pre-title page) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather. It is 1941. Another war has begun. She has left a note for Leonard and another for Vanessa. She walks purposefully toward the river, certain of what she'll do, but even now she is almost distracted by the sight of the downs, the church and a scattering of sheep, incandescent, tinged with a faint hint of sulfur, grazing under a darkening sky. She pauses, watching the sheep and the sky, then walks on." opening sentences Secondhand booksellers |
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