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Beschreibung
Two young women come of age in a novel "unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation." -- The Boston Globe

Their childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by the Great War. Now, in its lonely aftermath, Rose and Mary Aubrey find themselves deprived of the guiding strength of their cousin Rosamund when she marries a man of dubious morals and intolerable vulgarity. Retreating to an inn on the Thames, they find a haven of security with old friends.

Into this fragile Eden a new, disruptive force is introduced; Rose discovers the power of love, and, confronting her own sexuality, learns to delight in it. With extraordinary fierceness and candor, Rebecca West has written a portrait of sexual awakening, one that allows her characters an uncanny glimpse of our own age.

"Comes as close as we are ever likely to get to a self-portrait of the extraordinary woman who created her." -- Sunday Observer (London)

"The author’s searching, stinging, imaginative intelligence encompasses art and love and justice and simple humanness." -- Kirkus Reviews
Two young women come of age in a novel "unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation." -- The Boston Globe

Their childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by the Great War. Now, in its lonely aftermath, Rose and Mary Aubrey find themselves deprived of the guiding strength of their cousin Rosamund when she marries a man of dubious morals and intolerable vulgarity. Retreating to an inn on the Thames, they find a haven of security with old friends.

Into this fragile Eden a new, disruptive force is introduced; Rose discovers the power of love, and, confronting her own sexuality, learns to delight in it. With extraordinary fierceness and candor, Rebecca West has written a portrait of sexual awakening, one that allows her characters an uncanny glimpse of our own age.

"Comes as close as we are ever likely to get to a self-portrait of the extraordinary woman who created her." -- Sunday Observer (London)

"The author’s searching, stinging, imaginative intelligence encompasses art and love and justice and simple humanness." -- Kirkus Reviews
Über den Autor
Rebecca West was a British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. West, a novelist who worked in a variety of genres, reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New Republic, as well as serving as a Bookman correspondent. Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield in London, England, in 1892, and grew up in an environment rich in intellectual stimulation, political debate, vibrant conversation, books, and music. Her Scottish mother, Isabella, was a talented pianist who did not pursue a musical career after marrying Charles Fairfield. He never returned to them, dying poor and alone in a boarding house in Liverpool in 1906, when Cicily was 14. The rest of the family went to Edinburgh, Scotland, where Cicily attended George Watson's Ladies College. She had to leave school in 1907 because of [...] elected not to return after recuperating from the sickness, later describing her time at Watson's as "prison".
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780140101300
ISBN-10: 0140101306
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Rebecca
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Rebecca West
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.1987
Gewicht: 0,324 kg
Artikel-ID: 128227412