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Sybille Bedford

A Favourite of the Gods

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'One of Britain's most stylish and accomplished writers.' -- TelegraphOne autumn in the late nineteen-twenties for no particular reason at all, as it would seem, we began to live in France.Constanza and her young daughter step off a train in the French Riviera in the late 1920s without the slightest notion of where they are. But their story begins with Constanza's parents: a beautiful New England heiress, a Roman prince and the confused catastrophe of their marriage. An idyllic childhood spent in crumbling Roman palaces, sun-baked olive groves, at sumptuous parties and being taught by the most interesting men in Rome, is changed forever by a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-907970-18-4
  • EAN: 9781907970184
  • Produktnummer: 19900788
  • Verlag: Daunt Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 481 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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