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Title: All passion spent (Virago omnibus) by V Sackville-West ISBN: 0-86068-927-1 Publisher: Virago Pub. Date: 1987 Format: Unknown Binding |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply beautiful
Comment: This gorgeous novel reflects many of the ideas found in "A Room Of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, with whom Vita had a famous affair. After the death of her husband, the Earl of Slane, Lady Slane shocks her staid family by asserting her own will, leaving the house she kept with her husband, and settling into a small house in the countryside. Finally after seventy years, Lady Slane is determined to live as she chooses, with a life full of contemplation, dreams, and memories. She reflects on her lost ambition to be a painter, but knows that the life she lived was not without merit or value. She finds passion in the freedom to choose, and this gift she bequeaths to the one member of her family who understands its importance.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable classic for women (of any age) who "Get It!"
Comment: I meandered my way to this book through Sarah Ban Breathnach's treasure of self-excavation, Simple Abundance. I had read Anne Morrow Lindbergh because of her recommendation too. AML & Charles Lindbergh were good friends with Vita Sackville-West & her husband, Nigel Nicholson. So I finally got around to Vita Sackville-West & this book. It was so moving, wonderful, unforgettable, that I will reread it. I laughed & cried. I will try to find older copies of this to give away to dear friends, old & new. It's one of those books. I'm 41 & have sacrificed much for the men & children in my life that I nonetheless love so dearly. This book helped me bring those feelings of ambivalence into focus. It also helped me realize I'm relatively young & still have time to live the life I've dreamed of since I was a little girl. Maybe this "child-bearing years" thing was just a detour.
Rating: 5
Summary: Memorable and touching
Comment: This curiously overlooked novel was revived by a Masterpiece Theater production starring Dame Wendy Hiller, which like this novel was superb. The gentle story of an elderly woman's retirement while her forceful children squabble over unimportant matters is at once comic and poignant. The author has peppered the tale with curious, memorable characters, among them the eccentric art collector who is allowed to eat in portrait galleries because museums hope he will donate to them when he dies; the benign landlord Bucktrout, who sees Lady Slain's desire for peace at home; and the coffin maker who pictures people dead to reveal their true characters. This fine little masterpiece deserves to be read today.
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Title: Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson, V. Sackville-West ISBN: 0226583570 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings by Mary Ann Caws, Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West ISBN: 031223760X Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 2nd Edition by Vita Sackville-West, Louise De Salvo, Mitchell Leaska ISBN: 1573441368 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning ISBN: 0688041116 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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