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- Condition
- Title
- Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
- ISBN
- 0007486960
- EAN
- 9780007486960
- Type
- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2014-10-09
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
- Artist
- Dennison, Matthew
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
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- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West
- Item Height
- 240 mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories, Art & Culture
- Item Weight
- 750 g
- Item Width
- 159 mm
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West is perhaps best known as the creator, with her husband Harold Nicolson, of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, now the most visited gardens in Britain. In a career spanning more than forty years, she also made her mark as a prolific and accomplished writer. She was an award-winning poet, a best-selling novelist, a biographer, a travel writer and a journalist with a huge and devoted following. Images of Vita - striking, poised, aristocratic, and intellectual - remain iconic even now. Yet these public images do not tell all. Behind the mask another, more complicated Vita lay. Here, in the first biography to be written for thirty years, Matthew Dennison reveals a renegade, brave and charismatic woman: from a lonely childhood of immense privilege in her beloved family house Knole (which she, as a woman, could never inherit), to a celebrated and affectionate marriage which was nevertheless mutually 'open' and strewn with passionate homosexual affairs (in Vita's case, most famously with Virginia Woolf and Violet Trefusis); from the hubbub of jewel-encrusted parties at Buckingham Palace, to the solace Vita found in nature and gardening and the eventual seclusion of her tower at Sissinghurst. Drawing on sources from archives across the globe as well as Vita's own prolific written output, Dennison traces the inspiration, triumphs and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. Devoted wife, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', reluctant courtier, recluse, lesbian, iconoclast - Dennison deftly weaves together the myriad strands of Vita's life to create a revealing and insightful portrait of the woman behind the mask.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007486960
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Year
2014
Book Title
Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Art & Culture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
750 g
Item Width
159 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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