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The Swan In The Evening :Fragments of an Inner Life - Virago Modern Classics
The Swan In The Evening :Fragments of an Inner Life - Virago Modern Classics
paperback
Published:
21 October, 1982
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780860682998 |
| ISBN10 | 0860682994 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 126 g |
| Product Dimensions | 200 x 131 x 12 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply -- English PEN
A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf -- Cyril Connolly
While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior * Kirkus Reviews *
A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf * Cyril Connolly *
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen * Elizabeth Jane Howard *
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Author's Bio
Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.