Aspects of Love - Softcover

Garnett, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140013377 ISBN 13: 9780140013375

Publisher: Penguin, 1978

Synopsis

A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris. Such are the aspects of love in this novel, the source for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.

About this title

Review:

"Exquisite evocations of Venice, Paris and the French countryside." - "Observer"

About the Author:

David Garnett (1892-1981) started as a bookseller in London in the 1920s and went on to become a partner in the Nonesuch Press between 1923 and 1935. In the 1930s he also worked as a literary editor and contributor to the New Statesman and he worked as a historian for the government during World War Two. He was also famous as an author and published a large number of novels throughout these years. He is well known for his association with the Bloomsbury group - as a conscientious objector in the First World War, he lived at Charleston with the painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, and he later went on to marry their daughter Angelica. He was made a CBE in 1952.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0140013377
• ISBN 13: 9780140013375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144