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Sybille Bedford

Pleasures and Landscapes

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'Bedford's ability to recreate landscape is matched only by her appetite for mouth-watering descriptions of exotic food . . . She cannot write a dull page.' -- Financial Times'The Naples boat was on time. Lightly one stepped ashore, and, after a brief, slow ascent, emerged into Piazza still warm under a late afternoon sun.'In these eight evocative and transcendent essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty year period. With her elegant prose and razor sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey -dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in Capri, taking us across… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-907970-41-2
  • EAN: 9781907970412
  • Produktnummer: 19842252
  • Verlag: Daunt Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 168 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 213 KB

Über den Autor


Sybille Bedford was born in 1911 in Charlottenburg, Germany, the daughter of a German father and an English mother. She grew up in Italy, France and England. The account of her travels in Mexico A Visit to Don Otavio was her first published book in 1953, and she followed it with three novels, A Legacy (1956), A Favourite of the Gods (1963) and A Compass Error (1968). Her semi-autobiographical novel, Jigsaw, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Her memoir, Quicksands, was published in 2005. Sybille Bedford died in 2006.

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