Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

by Lyndall Gordon

Book Overview

[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations.--Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This original, intuitive, and even exciting (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art--her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039332205X
• ISBN13: 9780393322057
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

When A Masterpiece May Need An Advocate

This paperback-only book is a Masterpiece, and frankly one of the best books written about Virginia Woolf. Certainly, books abound about her - but they were not written by this author and insider with vast connections to both Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Also, aside from the substantive content, the book is truly a labor of love. I've never "advocated" for a book before but Virginia Woolf surely is still "with us" as one of the most masterful and popular authors of all time. If she cannot literally speak for herself (although her own writings do that exceedingly well), I believe it is our responsibility to go-tell-it-on-the-mountain when a gem-of-a-book about one of the greatest female-genius-writers is about to go down for the count. Oh, and the front cover photo of VW alone is worth almost as much as the book itself for VW was never again photographed with her guard down in quite this way. The book tells you why.