Pleasures And Landscapes - Couverture souple

Bedford, Sybille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907970401 ISBN 13 : 9781907970405

Editeur : Daunt Books, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her elegant prose and razor-sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey – dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in Capri, taking us across the wind-swept piazzas of Venice in winter, and tantalising our taste buds with a tour of the vineyards of Bordeaux.

Bedford shows us the world through her eyes – the eyes of a seasoned traveller – in all its beauty and wonder. Pleasures and Landscapes is a satisfyingly sensuous literary expedition told by one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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. 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Daunt Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1907970401
• ISBN 13: 9781907970405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168