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A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.  --The Philadelphia Inquirer
            
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact.  Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit,  and her sanity and strength.

It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of grea

Virginia Woolf

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A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.  --The Philadelphia Inquirer            While... Read more

    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 10/5/1999 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780375701368, 978-0375701368
    ISBN10: 0375701362

    Number of Pages: 944

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.  --The Philadelphia Inquirer
                
    While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact.  Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit,  and her sanity and strength.

    It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of grea

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