The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
By Lorna Gibb
By Lorna Gibb
By Lorna Gibb
By Lorna Gibb
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$17.95
May 12, 2015 | ISBN 9781619025455
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Apr 21, 2014 | ISBN 9781619023741
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Praise
“It’s especially impressive that Gibb manages to chronicle West’s often complicated life in an even–handed, coherent way. Fast–paced and well–researched, The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West is a fine biography of a writer whose life and career was full of fascinating contradictions and intersections.” —NPR Books
“West was a woman of ‘surprising contradictions,’ and this biography captures them all without losing sight of the very real person in whom they resided.” —Washington Post
“Gibb’s meticulous biography, […] concentrates […] on her magnetic subject’s complex personality and all the drama and controversy that make West’s life truly “extraordinary.”—Booklist
Praise for the UK Edition of West’s World:
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it presents with discerning succinctness, a sharply etched portrait of a true original
Cissie Fairfield remained alive and well inside her alter ego, to judge from Lorna Gibb’s brisk and affectionate biography.”—The Sunday Times
“This riveting book is not a typical literary biography
Lorna Gibb may have read all of Rebecca West’s vast output, but she does not flaunt it
Miss Gibb wisely leaves it to others to appraise her subject as a writer. What she does is to tell a gripping story of a woman’s life
”—Country Life
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in this calm, well researched biography she does an excellent job of reminding us why West was so ahead of her time.”—The Mail
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Lorna Gibb makes the most of the reams of papers that West and her many friends and acquaintances produced.”—Literary Review
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