Library of Wales: I Sent a Letter to My Love (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Parthian Books, Cardigan, 2008
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Paperback. A story about a woman who makes a final bid for freedom and happiness. All her life she has seen herself as ugly and unattractive and resigned to a life of solitude and lovelessness. Now in her fifites and living alone with her crippled brother she makes a last ditch attempt to meet someone she can love. Her life spirals into new dimensions and awarenesses. A story about a woman who makes a final bid for freedom and happiness. All her life she has seen herself as ugly and unattractive and resigned to a life of solitude and lovelessness. Now in her fifites and living alone with her crippled brother she makes a last ditch attempt to meet someone she can love. Her life spirals into new dimensions and. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Library of Wales: I Sent a Letter to My Love (Paperback)
- Author
- Bernice Rubens
- Publisher
- Parthian Books, Cardigan
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1905762526
- ISBN 13
- 9781905762521
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About the Author
Bernice Rubens had two daughters, taught English at a Birmingham grammar school from 1950 to 1955, before entering the film industry. Her documentaries were well received, one entitled Stress winning the American Blue Ribbon award in 1968. She began writing fiction based securely on the intricacies of her own Jewish family in her late twenties. She achieved early critical and commercial success with her first novel Set On Edge (1960) which allowed her to maintain a long career which would encompass 24 published novels. Her autobiography published in 2003 was her first work of non-fiction but she had often used incidents in her own life such the break up of her marriage in her work.
Her second novel, Madame Sousatzka (1962), became a film starring Shirley MacLaine and directed by John Schlesinger; her seventh, I Sent A Letter To My Love (1975), was also filmed, with Simone Signoret.
Rubens enjoyed the respected place she had achieved in the literary world. She was an honorary vice-president of International PEN and served as a Booker judge in 1986. She maintained close friendships with a chosen group of colleagues, including Beryl Bainbridge, Paul Bailey and Francis King.
She was a compelling storyteller, weaving her novels from many strands: her own vivid experiences, her friends’ and family’s lives, centuries of Jewish tradition and history; above all, her remarkable and disturbing imagination. In everyday places - a suburban villa, an English public school, a home for the elderly - Rubens showed the horrors that can lie behind net curtains and cosiness, polite conversation or an unexplained wink.
Though her novels possess many themes, she admitted that she really only wrote about one thing. Human relationships were the core material of her books, especially within a family. In later years her work moved to a larger historical canvas as she connected strongly with her Jewish heritage. She considered her strongest book to be Brothers, a sweeping historical novel that follows several generations of a Jewish family through a fight for survival that takes them from 19th-century Tsarist Russia to western Europe and Nazism, then back to modern Russia and its continued persecution of the Jews. It was the best she insisted: “because... what it is about matters”.
She died in London in 2004. -- Publisher: Parthian Books
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