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Loading... Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (original 1989; edition 2001)by Sybille Bedford
Work InformationJigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford (1989)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Jigsaw. An unsentimental education is a(n) (auto-) biographical novel, describing the period from the early to mid-Twentieth Century particularly the 1920s. Unfortunately, much less attention is paid to the Huxleys than I had hoped, perhaps because the author had already written a biography of Aldous Huxley. The book doesn't really take off until about page 80. Very lyrical and inspiring. Surprisingly, this book was first published in 1989, and the introduction to this edition, written in 1999 is by the author herself. ( ) Writing about the 1920, Sybille Bedford writes about another world, her life as a young woman at that tme. She portrays a chaotic childhood, living with her father, then her mother, running away from home. She gives us exquisite portraits of people she meets in all the different places she lives. As a teenager, she seems to live an idyllic life moving seamlessly between London and the south of France. However, the book gets darker and more emotional, although always with some reserve. An interesting and well written book. no reviews | add a review
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This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera.Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature. No library descriptions found. |
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