Bibliograph

Sybille Bedford, a life, Selina Hastings

Type

Label

Sybille Bedford, a life, Selina Hastings

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sybille Bedford

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1154117730

Responsibility statement

Selina Hastings

Sub title

a life

Summary

"From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic family history. Born just outside Berlin, she lived alternately in Baden, the south of France, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and London. As an adolescent she was mentored by Aldous Huxley . . . Martha Gellhorn convinced her to write her first novel, A Legacy, which would finally be published in 1956 . . . in the 1960s she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials including that of Auschwitz officials, and Jack Ruby's for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . . . she was an important figure in the lesbian community in Europe and America . . . and though she often found herself in dire financial straits, her life was just as often underwritten by devoted men or her women lovers. She was possessed of a fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, compassion, and unstinting engagement with all the vagaries and variety of life. And Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Lisa and "le beau Max" -- Baronin Billi -- From icy England to the warmth of the Mediterranean -- The delights and dangers of Sanary-sur-Mer -- Sailing into the unknown -- "A new exotic opulent world" -- The loveliness of Rome -- "That ogre, the snail novel" -- "Heaven bless you, Mrs. Bedford" -- "The tremendous trials of our time" -- "Food is part of the love of life" -- "Novels among other things are galleries of mirrors" -- "Getting old & weak is horrible"

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