Quicksands: A Memoir - Hardcover

Bedford, Sybille

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241140374 ISBN 13: 9780241140376

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Synopsis

Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she takes readers from the Berlin of World War 1, to the artists' set on the Côte d'Azur of the 1920s, through friends, lovers, mentors and family, to a relatively settled life in London's Chelsea. Whether evoking the everyday pleasures of life amongst friends or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.

About this title

Review:

"A splendid book, lucid, balanced, humane, and civilized. It does what we ask books to do."

About the Author:

Sybille Bedford was born in Germany in 1911, and was brought up in Italy, England and France. In 1989 her novel JIGSAW was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has published eight other books and lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0241140374
• ISBN 13: 9780241140376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384