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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Publication date
July 1, 1990
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780899667454
ISBN-10
0899667457
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Business
Original list price
$35.95
Other format details
reference
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel. Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slane finally, in her widowhood, defies her family. She dismisses the wishes and plans of her six pompous sons and daughters for her future, and instead retires to a tiny house in Hampstead, where she chooses to live independently and free from her past. There she alters, and not without some success, the course of her personal history. There, too, she recollects the dreams of her youth and at last, with one last "strange and lovely thing," acts upon the passion she forfeited seventy years earlier to the narrow conventions of a proper Victorian marriage. "...Sackville-West has borrowed in her prose writing some ... function of poetry, the ability to suggest far more than she says." New York Times "Witty and charming and graceful and brilliant.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Buccaneer Books (July 1, 1990)
9780899667454 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $35.95
About: Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.
About: Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.
Paperback
Mti rep edition from Carroll & Graf Pub (December 1, 1991)
9780881847949 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $10.95
About: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
About: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
Reprint edition from Doubleday (July 1, 1984)
9780385279765 | details & prices | List price $8.95
About: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
About: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
With Victoria Glendinning (other contributor) |
from Virago Pr (May 1, 1983)
9780860683582 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.99
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Wendy Hillier (other contributor) |
from Chivers Audio Books (August 1, 1987)
9780745163536 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $54.95
About: In 1860, as an unmarried girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret burning ambition--to become an artist.
About: In 1860, as an unmarried girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret burning ambition--to become an artist.
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