Behind the Mask The Life of Vita Sackville-West

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781250033949
  • 09 juni 2015
  • 384 pagina's
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Matthew Dennison

Matthew Dennison studeerde in Oxford en Glasgow. Als journaliste en columnist schrijft hij onder andere voor 'The Times' en 'Telegraph Magazine'. Eerder verschenen van hem de boeken 'De twaalf Caesars' (Kosmos) en 'Livia' (Omniboek).

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A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization.

In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria.
Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind ‘the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion – a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
09 juni 2015
Aantal pagina's
384
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Hoofdauteur
Matthew Dennison
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ST MARTINS PR

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160 mm
Verpakking hoogte
33 mm
Verpakking lengte
239 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
590 g

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