Virginia Woolf Harris Alexandra
Virginia Woolf Harris Alexandra Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and…
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Virginia Woolf Harris Alexandra
Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and passionate appreciation of ordinary things In this illuminating new account, Alexandra Harris uses vivid flashes of detail to evoke Woolf's changing backgrounds and preoccupations. This is the story of how a determined young woman with a notebook became one of the greatest writers of all time.
We see her tackling challenging forms of writing, trying out different voices, following flights of fancy, and returning to earth. We move from the close-packed rhythms of a Victorian childhood to the experiments of Bloomsbury and Woolf's trial-and-error answers to the pressing question of how to live. Above all, we see her making conscious decisions about what to do next The book considers each of the novels in context, gives due