Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel - Softcover

Bedford, Sybille

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140113886 ISBN 13: 9780140113884

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

An autobiographical novel based on Sybille Bedford's highly unusual childhood, moving from a south-German Schloss full of animals and expensive wines to a nonconformist family in the North of England.

About this title

About the Author:

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140113886
• ISBN 13: 9780140113884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352