· Norah Vincent’s Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf is, in simplified terms, a fictionalised biography of one of the twentieth century’s most enduring authors. Adeline, named as she was after her mother Julia’s deceased sister, was Woolf’s given name. It was never used within her family, ‘as Julia did not like to use the name full of painful association’.Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · Adeline by Norah Vincent. And the trend of bringing writers to life through fiction continues with Adeline by Norah Vincent. In a refreshing turn, this time we have a female writer – Virginia Woolf – front and center with her husband and other members of the Bloomsbury group playing a secondary role. Now for the embarrassing www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. -- New Statesman "Norah Vincent's new novel, Adeline, is a bold portrait of Virginia Woolf from her conception of To the Lighthouse in to her suicide in The reader comes to understand Virginia's complex artistic process and her lifelong struggle with mental illness."Brand: Los Angeles.
With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent paints an intimate portrait of what might have happened in those last years of Virginia Woolf's life. From her friendships with the so-called Bloomsbury Group, which included the likes of T. S. Eliot, to her struggles with her husband, Leonard, Vincent explores the intimate. Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf, by Norah Vincent, Virago, RRP£/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$23, pages Priya Parmar will be speaking at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on. What happened in between those two moments is a story to be told, one of insight and camaraderie, loneliness and loss—the story of a woman, named Adeline at birth, heading toward an inexorable demise. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent paints an intimate portrait of what might have happened in those last years of.
Norah Vincent (born Septem, Detroit, Michigan) is an American www.doorway.ru attended Williams College, where she graduated with a BA in philosophy in Vincent was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate. "Adeline is an intimate portrait of a sister, a wife, a woman, and most importantly, an artist. In this vivid, deeply moving novel, Vincent brings us beyond the world of legend directly into the passions, the struggles, the ambitions and finally the genius that is Virginia Woolf.". Norah Vincent's Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out.
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