Books by Susan Sellers
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review 1: Before reading Priya Parmar's book Vanessa and Her Sister I knew very little about the Stephen family and the Bloomsbury Group. I had read many books by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. I recognized the names of Roger Fry and Vanessa and Clive Bell, and knew that Lytton Stachey ...
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review 1: It takes a few pages to realize this is Vanessa's story not the more renowned Virginia Woolf. The story is written in first person to Virginia so the sentences are like: "Your hand is on my arm. I have forgotten you in my musings. I pull back the bedclothes and make room for you....
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review 1: This writing and imaginative retelling of the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf was gorgeous. I enjoyed how the author played with possible sources of inspiration for some of Woolf's work. And the portrayal of sibling rivalry rang truer than any I've read recent...