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- Publisher: Perseus Books Group
- ISBN: 1582433518
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100471701
- Release Date: March 14, 2006
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #359028 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #12385 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #713 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Quicksands" by Sybille Bedford to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Quicksands"Browse more products related to "Sybille Bedford"Review"Now that she's settled into the magnificence of her 90s, [Sybille Bedford] has written a calm, exact, lovely book out of all [her] jangle of memories....She's also funny, ingratiating, scabrous....Bedford's memories are wonderfully sensual, and not jut in the rush of the words. Hers is a deeper sensuality, arising from what she knows and thinks and feels." "Breathless, halting memoir in fragments...." Publisher's noteBeginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, the highly acclaimed Sybille Bedford has narrated-in fiction and nonfiction-what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War I, to the artists' set on the C(tm)te d'Azur of the 1920s, through lovers, mentors, seducers, and friends, from genteel yet shabby poverty to settled comfort in London's West End. Whether evoking the simple sumptuousness of a home-cooked meal, or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers both "a deliciously evoked return to worlds" (John Fowles), and spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives. AnnotationIn this sequel to JIGSAW, Sybille Bedford (b. 1911) writes about her fascinating and decidedly unusual upbringing. Her father was a connoisseur of the good life who taught her how to uncork wine when she was seven years old. Her mother left the family when Sybille was a child, moving to various exotic locations with her aristocratic Italian husband. Early in her life, Sybille knew she would be a writer, but she was in her forties before she began publishing. Her life has also encompassed extensive travel, dramatic rises and falls in fortune, and relationships with both men and women. This somewhat elliptical volume of her memoirs is due to be followed by a final installment. If You Enjoy "Quicksands (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Quicksands (Paperback)" by Sybille Bedford (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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