Sybille Bedford

An Appetite for Life

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<p><b>'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br>Sybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father died when she was just fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and <i>litterateur</i>, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction. A <i>bon viveur</i>, she roamed from country to country in search of fresh experience, with ear and eye attuned to her surroundings, typewriter at the ready. <br><br>Full of intense friendships (Aldous Huxley, Martha Gellhorn and Elizabeth Jane Howard among them), a fierce commitment to the craft of writing, as well as an insatiable appetite for love and sex, Sybille Bedford blazed her own path in her life and her art.<br><br><b>'Selina Hastings' wonderful, gossipy biography is a gem, revealing not just the shy writer, but also the colourful, turbulent 20th-century literary world in which she lived' <i>Sunday Times</i>, Books of the Year</b><br><b><br>'A wonderful biography' Sara Wheeler, <i>Spectator</i></b><br><b><br>'An extraordinary story' <i>The Times</i></b><br><b><br>'A richly entertaining biography' <i>Daily Mail</i>, Books of the Year</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784704377

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

205 x 132 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing