| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in All Passion Spent (Virago Modern Classics) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
Shades of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ivy Compton-Burnett. A very gifted writer of fiction (GAY TIMES )
Book Description
A portrait of a newly independent woman trying, late in life, to escape the clutches of an over-solicitous family
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an elegy for a wasted life. Sackville paints an intimate portrait of an old lady who in the eyes of society has had it all, wealth, a title, children a distinguished husband; and shows the real woman on the inside. The real woman mourns her younger self, a vital woman who wanted to spend her life painting and make painting her life. Now, with her husband dead she isolates herself and takes stock of what the purpose of her life has been. It is sweet and melancholy, yet saved from being sentimental by real touches of humour and satire and a couple of key points of redemption within the structure of the novel.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
How effortlessly Ms. Sackville-West spins her surprisingly moving story of an aging aristocrat who, near the end of her life, decides to do those things she could never do before as she sublimated herself to her strong, successful and controlling husband. This classic British diplomat, who expected to be obeyed because such were the times, was, after all, so much more important than she was and what an interesting life she had in his shadow, didn't she - so conscientious and such a good wife and mother. What she does when he dies, how she perceives her existence and her place in her family - and how they respond - will catch you up in its wake and carry you to the ending, which is perfect and thus bittersweet. I found this a memorable novella.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An interesting book, whose flashbacks reveal the true but suppressed personality of the main protagonist, Lady Slane, a woman whose charater was never truly appreciated neither by her husband nor by her many children.
One has the feeling her true life begins after the death of her husband,with her living in Hampstead. The village of Hampstead represents an emotional as well as a spacial seperation from the children and her previous existence.
One has the feeling her true life begins after the death of her husband,with her living in Hampstead. The village of Hampstead represents an emotional as well as a spacial seperation from the children and her previous existence.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
a lot packed into a small book
This went down well in my book group but is not a book for those who want a bit of action as they snuggle down for a good read. Read more
Published 19 months ago by the scribbler
Waugh lovers will enjoy
If you have exhausted your supply of Waugh, this will keep you going a bit longer.
Published 24 months ago by Guy Cornwall
"Quite, quite meaningless"
Warning: this review contains spoilers
I have read her biography and her letters; the garden she created at Sissinghurst, Kent, is one of my favourite places, but I had... Read more
I have read her biography and her letters; the garden she created at Sissinghurst, Kent, is one of my favourite places, but I had... Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2009 by Mr. T. Harvey
Add it to your classics
This is a curious book. It is the recollections of an 88 year-old woman and her contemplation over her past as her very eminent husband dies and she is left -after 70 years of... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2008 by the
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
