A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh
portrait. --
Newsday
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. .
. . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and
mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has
seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing
to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of
identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of
perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and
the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions
intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide
are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary
achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and
wit, and her sanity and strength.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great
fiction--but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved.
Accessible, intelligent, and deeply pleasurable to read, her
Virginia Woolf will undoubtedly take its place as the standard
biography for years to come.
"One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving,
eloquent, powerful as both literary and social history."
--Financial Times
"The most distinguished study of Woolf yet." --The New
Republic
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