Quicksands: A Memoir - Hardcover

Bedford, Sybille

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582431698 ISBN 13: 9781582431697

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2005

Synopsis

In a narrative memoir, the literary luminary and author of A Legacy and A Visit to Don Otavio offers a the moving culmination to a sensuous, harrowing, and remarkable life that the author has narrated in her fiction and nonfiction. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

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

Synopsis:

"When the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Mrs. Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners."-Bruce Chatwin, Vogue Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, the highly acclaimed Sybille Bedford has narrated-in fiction and nonfiction-what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War I, to the artists' set on the Cte d'Azur of the 1920s, through lovers, mentors, seducers, and friends, from genteel yet shabby poverty to settled comfort in London's West End. Whether evoking the simple sumptuousness of a home-cooked meal, or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers both "a deliciously evoked return to worlds" (John Fowles), and spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1582431698
• ISBN 13: 9781582431697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384