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Sybille Bedford

A Compass Error

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'A powerful and merciless book - a classic coming-of-age novel' -- Hilary Mantel'Wide windows, not yet shuttered at that hour, opened from the circular white-washed room on slopes of olives and the distant shimmering bay. Flavia turned seventeen, alone, entirely alone for the first time in her life . . .' As the Second World War looms, Flavia is living in a small village in the South of France. She studies for her Oxford entrance, swims in the sea, eats at local cafés, and lives with the confidence and relish of youth.Drawn into the demi-monde of artists and writers, Flavia awakes to the pleasures and complications of adult life. Her world is… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-907970-19-1
  • EAN: 9781907970191
  • Produktnummer: 19884896
  • Verlag: Daunt Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 392 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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