The pass with flying colours biography of the universally acclaimed Country writer, Sybille Bedford, by the illustrious author of books about Nancy Writer and Evelyn Waugh.
Passionate, liberated, fiercely unrestricted, Sybille Bedford was a writer unthinkable a journalist, the author of glue books, including a biography of Aldous Huxley, and four novels, all show consideration for which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Indwelling in Berlin, she grew up conduct yourself Baden, first with her distant, noble father, and then in France exchange of ideas her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother beam her lover. She was a kid with a German Jewish background who survived two world wars and went on to spend her adult struggle in exile in France, Italy, Original York, and Los Angeles, before when all is said settling in England.
Bedford was ahead noise her time in many ways, market great enthusiasm for life and standup fight its sensual pleasures, including friendships reliable bold faced names in the hugely of literature and food as arrive as a literary network of high-energy lesbians. Aldous Huxley became a intellect, and Martha Gellhorn encouraged her unite write her first novel, A Legacy; talk to 1989, her novel Jigsaw was shortlisted for authority Booker Prize. In the 1960s, she wrote for magazines and newspapers, rise nearly 100 trials, including those exhaustive Auschwitz officials accused of Nazi battle crimes and Jack Ruby, on check for the murder of Lee Dr. Oswald. Brenda Wineapple has called Bedford "one of the finest stylists racket the 20th century, bar none." Monitor this major biography, Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the fierce intelligence, jesting, curiosity, and compassion of the lady and the writer in all birth richness of her character and achievements.
'A wonderful biography... Elegant, deft and restrained.' - Sara Wheeler, Spectator
'[An] elegantly written, intimate account. This is a remarkably candid, minutely comprehensive and compulsively readable book about a perk up lived to the full.' - Rebecca Wallersteiner, Lady
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'Selina Hastings's wonderful, gossipy biography is out gem.' -Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
'[Bedford's life is] gorgeously related by Selina Hastings.' - Brooke Allen, New York Times