The Girl from the Fiction Department
A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony PowellJust three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took 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 lite…
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- ISBN: 978-0-241-97461-2
- EAN: 9780241974612
- Produktnummer: 19482696
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'297 KB
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Hilary Spurling
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