Bibliograph

Adeline, a novel of Virginia Woolf, Norah Vincent

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Adeline, a novel of Virginia Woolf, Norah Vincent

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Adeline

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Norah Vincent

Sub title

a novel of Virginia Woolf

Summary

In 1925, she began writing To the Lighthouse, an epic piece of prose that instantly became a beloved classic. In 1941, she walked into the River Ouse, never to be heard from again. What happened in between those two moments is a story to be told, one of insight and camaraderie, loneliness and loss-the story of a woman, named Adeline at birth, heading toward an inexorable demise. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent paints an intimate portrait of what might have happened in those last years of Virginia Woolf's life. From her friendships with the so-called Bloomsbury Group, which included the likes of T. S. Eliot, to her struggles with her husband, Leonard, Vincent explores the intimate conversations, tormented confessions, and internal struggles Woolf may have faced. Praised by USA Today as "daring" and by the New Statesman as "electrifyingly good," Adeline takes a keen look at one of the most beloved, mourned, and mysterious literary giants of all time

Target audience

adult

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