Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

Jenny Uglow

ISBN 10: 0571354165 / ISBN 13: 9780571354160

Edité par Faber & Faber, 2022

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2022. Paperback. . . . . .

N° de réf. du vendeur V9780571354160

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• Titre: Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571354165
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571354160
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

'A joy to read.' Sunday Times

'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph

'Excellent.' The Spectator

'Superb.' Literary Review

'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars.' Financial Times

In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts - streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years.

Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

À propos de l?auteur

Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies on Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and Edward Lear, as well as group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times. A retired editorial director of Chatto & Windus, and former Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, she grew up in Cumbria, and she and her husband Steve now live in Borrowdale.