Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Panthea Reid
Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Panthea Reid is a 570-page hardcover published in 1996. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Inside, the half-cloth book is in nearly new condition, with clean unmarked pages and tight, straight binding. The condition is very good. Book Summary More than fifty-five years after her death, Virginia Woolf remains a haunting figure, a woman whose life was both brilliantly successful and profoundly tragic. As the author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando, and Between the Acts, she helped reinvent the novel for the modernist era. And through A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, and other writings, she continues to inform feminist thought. Yet this supremely gifted woman of letters endured crippling bouts of depression--the incandescent artist who captivated some of the most noted men and women of her time died alone, wading out into the depths of the river Ouse to drown, hoping to find "rest on the floor of the sea."