Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life - Softcover

Gordon, Lyndall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039332205X ISBN 13: 9780393322057

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."―Scott Elledge

"[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."―Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art―her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.
black and white photographs

About this title

About the Author:

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life and Lives Like Loaded Guns. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN. She lives in Oxford.

Review:

[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations. -- Carolyn Heilbrun, New York Times Book Review

[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer. -- Scott Elledge

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 039332205X
• ISBN 13: 9780393322057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362