Portrait of a Marriage Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

Name: Portrait of a Marriage Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
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ISBN: 9780226583570

ISBN-10: 0226583570

ISBN-13: 9780226583570

Edition: 1998

Authors: Nigel Nicolson

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Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during her various love affairs with women, Vita maintained a loving marriage with Harold. Portrait of a Marriage presents an often misunderstood but always fascinating couple. "Portrait of a Marriage is as close to a cry from the heart as anybody writing in English in our time has come,…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Nigel Nicolson is the author of "Portrait of a Marriage," a biography of his parents, Harold Nicolson & Vita Sackville-West, & of "Long Life," his own memoirs. He has also written books on politics & the arts & the Whitbread Prize-winning biography "Mary Curzon." A Member of Parliament for several years, he is cofounder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson publishers. He lives at Sissinghurst, England, now a National Trust property.




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