Quicksands

A Memoir

By Bedford, Sybille

Publishers Summary:
Beginning 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™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.

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ISBN
978-1-58243-169-7
Publisher
Counterpoint Press


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Reviewed on April 1, 2005

English novelist Bedford has written several novels (e.g., A Legacy ) and a biography of Aldous Huxley but remains little known to American readers. Writing from the vantage point of a nonagenarian with the benefit of hindsight, she reviews the events of her early life, focusing on the years between World War I and World War II. She moves back and forth in time, accumulating events of the li...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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