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Vanessa E Virginia (2008)

by Susan Sellers(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8865591684 (ISBN13: 9788865591680)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Beat

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 recently. But--not the author's fault--this is a depressing story. I had to read it in little pieces, because I couldn't take the intensity of the sadness--something Vanessa and Virginia had trouble with too. Certainly not a biography, but an imaginative retelling of two people whose lives often end up in very stuffy biographies.
review 2: I enjoyed every page of this rich novel of vignettes, told from the (fictional) point of view of Vanessa Bell, to Virginia Woolf, in elegy. I did not ca... morere for the very last sentence, but that feeling stands in sharp contrast to my reception of the rest-- evidenced by several dozen dog eared pages, which I marked in order to savor all over again. I see a good many negative reviews on Goodreads and I'm surprised by that. less

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