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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

Autor Hilary Spurling
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2003
Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author ofMatisse the MasterandAnthony Powell

Just three months before his death, the author ofNineteen Eighty-Fourtook a new wife. Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in Orwell's most famous novel, she was fifteen years younger than her husband, and after his death she was hounded and pilloried as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of the literary legacy. But the truth about Sonia was altogether different.

Beautiful, intelligent and fiercely idealistic, she lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to Orwell changed her life for ever. Those who knew her - Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus - witnessed her great personal generosity. And yet, burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's intellectual estate, Sonia's loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141008172
ISBN-10: 0141008172
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Hilary Spurlingis the author of numerous biographies, includingIvy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919;Paul Scott: A Life; a two-volume biography of Matisse,The Unknown MatisseandMatisse the Master(also published in the abridged single-volumeMatisse: The Life); andBurying the Bones. She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize forIvy When Young,the Whitbread Book of the Year Award forMatisse the Master, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize forBurying the Bones. She grew up in Bristol and studied at the University of Oxford. From 1964 to 1970 she was Theatre Critic and Literary Editor of theSpectator, and since then she has been a regular book reviewer for theObserverand theDaily Telegraph. In 2016 she won the Biographers' Club Lifetime Achievement Award.