Shared Lives
Growing Up in 50s Cape Town
$36.05
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2005
Summary
Lyndall Gordon, the acclaimed biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1950s. This intimate and moving memoir is the story of Rosie, Ellie, and Romy—her closest friends from childhood until their early deaths.
Daughters of Jewish immigrants, these girls grew into adulthood together, shaped by their parents’ and grandparents’ Eastern European heritages, the stifling atmosphere of their proper girls’ school, South Africa’s politics, and the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081431 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081435 |
| Author: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 199mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
[Lyndall Gordon] has rendered so faithfully, so lyrically really, the way things were. Added to the delightful candor with which Lyndall writes both of herself and of her characters, the wry humor of her writing. It is a marvellous book. - Lynn Freed
About The Author
Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning author of biographies including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, VIRGINIA WOOLF, SHARED LIVES and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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