This novel of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell “captures the
sisters’ seesaw dynamic as they vacillate between protecting and
hurting each other” (The Christian Science Monitor). You see,
even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me. Vanessa
and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic
collaborators. As children, they fight for the attention of their
overextended mother, their brilliant but difficult father, and their
adored brother, Thoby. As young women, they support each other through
a series of devastating deaths, then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury,
bent on creating new lives and groundbreaking works of art. Through
everything—marriage, lovers, loss, madness, children, success and
failure—the sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they
also betray each other. In this lyrical, impressionistic account,
written as a love letter and an elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Susan
Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship
between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With
sensitivity and fidelity to what is known of both lives, Sellers has
created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry, and “beautifully
imagines what it must have meant to be a gifted artist yoked to a
sister of dangerous, provocative genius” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
“A delectable little book for anyone who ever admired the
Bloomsbury group. . . . A genuine treat.” —Publishers Weekly
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A Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780547393889
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter