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Spurling, Hilary The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
Counterpoint 2003 1582432430 / 9781582432434 Hard Cover As New As New
New copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. NO writing, marks or tears. Illustrated. Tight spine, clean pages. 194 pages. Synopsis Sonia Orwell was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Spurling, a prize-winning biographer and a friend of Sonia's, details Sonia's early career as an assistant at England's influential literary magazine Horizon in the 1940s and looks into her friendships with important literary figures of the day including W. H. Auden and Frances Bacon. The biography delves deeply into Sonia's marriage to Orwell and her financial problems upon his death. B&w personal photos are included. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. The New York Times: In the gentlest of resurrections, Sonia Orwell comes off as a desperate heroine cooked up by Jean Rhys and Edith Wharton on a rainy afternoon. If she fails to rise to the green velvet heights that Spurling sets for her, she remains formidable, more than a tad tortured, a woman of fierce devotions and equally fierce aversions, no less interesting for being, as one friend noted, ''unspeakably unhappy.'' She paid dearly for what she loved most, which is one definition of nobility. On all counts, the best epitaph for her may be that uttered by a Marguerite Duras character, closely modeled on Sonia: ''Literature can be as fatal as anything else; you can't get over it.'' Stacy Schiff
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