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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
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About Vita: The Life Of Vita Sackville-West
Product Description Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita’s extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman and mother; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book. Review "What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude." (Sunday Telegraph) "A biography that conceals nothing… gives her life in fact the strangeness, subtlety, complexity and ambivalence missing from her fiction." (The Observer) "Surely the definitive biography." (Harold Acton) "Superb… much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience." (Fiona McCarthy, The Times) "It required both literary skill of the highest order and a rare imaginative compassion to fashion a work of art out of life… superb." (Dervla Murphy, Irish Times) "Her modest, masterly, well-written treatment of a subject so absorbing in both intimate detail and public ramification is as good as it could be." (Country Life) "Again and again, I found myself turning to my battered paperback of Victoria Glendinning’s Whitbread prize-winning biography of Sackville-West." (The Guardian) About the Author Victoria Glendinning has written biographies of Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West, and Jonathan Swift, and won the Whitbread Award for her 1992 biography of Trollope. Her novels The Grown-Ups and Electricity received great critical acclaim. She divides her time between London, Provence, and Ireland.
